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Kinected Browser Lets You Flick Through Websites

Posted by timothy on from the whoa-there-cowboy dept.

mikejuk writes "The Kinect is well supported by a good and evolving SDK on the desktop, but until now using it in a browser wasn't easy. Now Microsoft Research has a free JavaScript API, Kinected Browser, that lets you integrate the Kinect with HTML. The bad news is that it only works on Windows 7 and 8 and in desktop mode only. In addition the browser has to be IE9 or IE 10. The good news is that more programmers know how to do HTML5 graphics than know how to work with DirectX or .NET. As a result this could lead to another burst of innovative Kinect applications."

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  1. To limited an Audience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Most programmers who know css and javascript also avoid IE like the plague. Even if it has the Native HTML5.

    1. Re:To limited an Audience by somersault · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's not changing for me. And I think "Many people who develop for Windows 8" is rather wishful thinking. If you're going to write an HTML/Javascript app, why not make it entirely cross platform?

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      which is totally what she said