Yesterday we told you about the availability of PC drivers for Microsoft’s Xbox Motion-sensing peripheral, Kinect – and how those drivers would help usher in a natural user interface for general computing.
Today we bring you the first video of that evolution. An industrious developer has taken those drivers and enabled a Minority Report styled method of interacting with his PC. Right now, all it seems capable of is moving and resizing photographs on the fly – but it’s a start. It’s actually not too dissimilar from the Playstation Move UI demos that did the rounds before the product’s release – but this doesn’t require you to hold anything..other than perhaps the hope that Microsoft releases a proper SDK for this thing some time soon.
This is the sort of stuff I’m keen on from Kinect – I really have little interest in pretending to pet virtual tigers.
Last Updated: November 12, 2010
easy
November 12, 2010 at 16:11
o yay, more picture resizing excitement.
maybe next time we will see something a little bit more practical.
Geoffrey Tim
November 12, 2010 at 16:14
Baby steps! 😀
shmo
November 12, 2010 at 20:00
where’s the black ops comp winner fellas?
Geoffrey Tim
November 12, 2010 at 20:45
Gavin will probably post the winner tonight.
Gavin Mannion
November 12, 2010 at 21:41
Yeah sorry was meant to get it up earlier but life happened.. the winning post is coming up in a few minutes
Noodle
November 15, 2010 at 10:59
Another baby step…