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Send Kinect Gesture Recognition Data Over Infrared
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Kinect Hacks: "Being able to send gestural data captured from your Kinect to another device via your computer of IR is incredible. You can send gesture recognition data to any piece of hardware that uses IR signals, such as your television, receiver, cable box or X10 extenders. Anything that reads IR signals can now be controlled by simply using gestures to control the devices. Absolutely amazing. The developer wrote custom code that works with his Kinect sensor plugged into his Mac Mini. The code is integrated with OpenNI which detects the user's skeleton and has specific gestures pre-programmed to control his TV in order to turn it off and on along with changing the volume on his digital receiver. Other gestures include the ability to change to the next and previous channel."
Three Microsoft-promoting articles in rapid succession. Maybe you should rename the site to Backslashdot.
Clippy: "I see that you're jerking off, would you like me to bring up some porn?"
Call me when you can drill sign-language on it.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Where a device that costs $149 can be hacked to ..... let you channel surf even more easily. Then you can make a blog all about hacking a product and promote yourself to get more attention than a third world development charity. This is what hacking is all about.
The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.
If the geiger counter does not click, the coffee, she is not thick.
Sure you have to do a complicated dance routine to flip through channels and change the volume, but maybe, one day soon, we'll be able to operate basic television controls from across the room using only a single thumb!
Wake when my TV can figure out what I want to watch and puts it on before my ass hits the couch.
The machine was rather difficult to operate.
The last of Adams' books was published in 1992.
In 2011 your Livio NPR or Pandora desktop Internet radio can tune 20,000 stations - but has a small screen and a bare five presets.
If he's talking about computers: mod parent down. Anyone who knows how to use them will tell you mouse gestures are far and away the most efficient way to browse the net. Especially if you use lots of tabs and sift through large numbers of pages.
Only once this kind of technology feels like using an iPad from a distance will it actually be useful. Until then this is no "game changer". That said, the combination of technologies that makes the present project work is impressive and all the best to the developer.
Timothy, you douche, you're an editor. EDIT. Don't simply take copypasta and put it on the front page of Slashdot.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I'm still waiting for someone to develop hardware that will let me turn my TV/lamp/etc. on and off simply by clapping.
A button is a lot simpler and quicker, true. However, your body is a lot harder to lose than the remote.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
While Kinect looks really cool, I am impatiently awaiting the Asus Xtion, which is the same hardware as the Kinect except it is not an XBox accessory, and you do not have to give any money to Microsoft for it. The developer version , the Xtion Pro, should be out any time now according to their official schedule. There is also now an OpenNI API for communicating with Kinect family devices, which is available for Linux as well. Hobby robotics vision never seemed as promising as now.
it's called a gamechanger cause you dont need an apparatus any longer to control a device.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
Anyone thought of using this to control special effects for a LARP? Imagine being able to actually see the magical effects you were using on someone...
Heh. No.
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