Kinect + Chrome * MIT / Minority Report = DepthJS

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Programming through interpretive dance. It's time for the joke to become reality.

now ... where was that bubble cursor bookmarklet ... oh, yeah

http://www.google.com/search?q=bubble+cursor+bookmarklet

OK, its time for me to buy a Kinect. Don't even own an xbox.

I've got an Xbox, but I am thinking of grabbing a Kinect as well mainly for hacking. The games don't interest me for the most part.

Is this the one?

http://www.amazon.com/Kinect-Sensor-Adventures-Xbox-360/dp/B...

...or is there a cheaper package that doesn't come with a game?

Interesting that this is out of the MIT Media Lab, since the Minority Report interfaces were based on earlier work there by another guy, who has since spun it into the spatial operating environment g-speak (oblong.com).

That said, I'm super into the fact that the extension is open source and the technology is available for others to build spatially-aware interfaces. Really, really cool work that I know I'll want to check out further.

I would love to have that "Plugin" for the Windows version of Chrome.

Not even sure if anyone has written the driver for win? I thought it was only coded for certain linux distros so far. Could be wrong though!

the driver is 'user land' libusb

Any video of this in action or did I miss a link on the page?

http://vimeo.com/17180651

Nice to see them running Ubuntu

http://vimeo.com/17180651

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