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USC Researchers Demonstrate Real-Life Gmail Motion
An anonymous reader writes "In this tongue-in-cheek video, researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies take playful jabs at Google as they demonstrate their software controlling Gmail with a Microsoft Kinect sensor. The gesture controls are strikingly similar to those jokingly suggested by Google in their fictional Gmail Motion application, posted as an April Fools' day prank. The researchers have made their software available for free on their website."
their moms basement is well lit.
Why?
... if they did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiZNtTLAwz8
Seriously... anytime anyone posts a good idea (even slightly outlandish) on the internet with no implementation, it gets implemented. How awesome would a combination hooker and blackjack machine be? Have at it, internet.
If well could be risky to use that in normal environments (like with voice commands, the computer have no way to tell that what you did or said was for it or for someone else in reach), have some potential for not so normal environments or uses. And that it is flexible enough to emulate gmail joke in little time mean that it could be ready for special uses.
After the tragedy/comedy combination that was April Fool's Day, it's nice to see someone taking a joke and turning it into someone useful. As a poster mentioned earlier yesterday, it would be quite nice to give Outlook the finger and have a sad face or a pouting puppy popup on your computer. That would take a large amount of the users' and tech support's rage out.
I am by no means in favor of a Minority Report-style interface for everyday computing, but it would be useful in certain situations. To release this software in a day is something that I would have expected only from the collegiate level, particularly from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, or Berkley. Keep the good work up, USC.
You sir speak the truth.
It's hopelessly sad what makes it as news here -_-
Walk behind coworkers at their computer and do the delete gesture.
Actually, $UC is itself a joke. To mention Figueroa Tech in the same breath as MIT, CM or Cal is an insult to those institutions.
I hear if you do a whole zumba routine in front of it, it emails a death threat to Jillian Michaels.
"Ahh! I see you're in that indeterminate Schrodinger state where - oh, uh
Text entry should be semaphore. It would be most fitting.
There will be some silly and serious implementations that will just be amazing. Kinect will likely change many things (good or bad) in the next few years. If any thing I though Google's prank was a bit sour grapes. Yes, obviously Kinect can't be used for all concepts, but also more obvious interaction concepts will evolve so that there may eventually be useful ways to interact with Gmail or Outlook with Kinect in the near future.
Where would you insert the coins?