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This is a great landing page as well. Good messaging, clean design, etc.

So if there isn't a browser plugin, how does the js get the kinect data?

We like that you like the design. A small package is installed which sits in the background. If a web app is using the JS library/SDK, then it will work in any modern browser.

Right, but how does the background app communicate with the js library without a browser plugin?

websockets :)

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