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Microsoft Shows Off Its Vision For Gesture-Controlled PCs
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has demoed a prototype gesture-controlled PC using an augmented version of its Kinect motion sensing system. The rig detects 16 gestures and can be used to navigate Windows 8. Microsoft said it wants gestures to complement what is possible using mouse and keyboard, rather than replacing them, and the system favors simple gestures made just above the keyboard, rather than more elaborate Minority Report-style gestures. '[A] window is maximized by clenching a fist to "grab" it and then opening the hand while moving towards the top of the keyboard. Performing the same series of gestures in reverse minimize the window. Repeating the gesture while moving the hand to the left or right edge of the keyboard docks the window with the left or right edge of the screen. The same series of gestures while moving the hand to the top left and right corners of the keyboard will throw the window to the left or right of screen, but not dock it with the edge. Bringing hands together in the middle of the keyboard and then moving them to the keyboard's left and right edge with palms down and fingers splayed will show the desktop. Repeating the gesture restores the original view.'"
When you raise your middle finger?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Touchscreens are a big enough step down from mouse and keyboard for getting utility out of computers. Can we just skip all the steps until AI conversation/mind reading? Thanks.
Cars should have this! There is no good reason to lean forward and touch a screen to adjust the volume and skip a track. If we had gestures in cars that would be a real breakthrough.
So no I have to lift my hands from the keyboard to control stuff?
Just how many of the normal motions I make with my hands will trigger random window events?
Sorry guys, but this sounds like a terrible idea, and not one I'd be interested in.
So does having a camera/motion tracker in front of me all day long, especially since Microsoft has already tipped their hand at being able to gather all sorts of extra data with it.
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people would be singing its praises and talking about how totally amazing it is, but since it's MS... well, we can't do that now, can we :)
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It sounds to me like bringing up the desktop requires a variation on a praying gesture. :)
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you're doing it wrong....
All of my goto shortcuts that I use on a daily basis work just fine. That includes some of the ones introduced in Windows 8 to access charms. I edited a registry key to disable the mouse-in/mouse-out actions for left, right and bottom screen. However I use win+i to open the control panel charm to shutdown the computer when I need to. You may just need a primer for windows 8 shortcuts
you're doing it wrong....
You may just need a primer for windows 8 shortcuts
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/windows-8-keyboard-shortcuts/
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Just how in the world do they expect us to automate our tests, now? Will we have to program little hand-waving robots to make gestures? And we'll, of course, need different-sized hands and fingers, too.
Just imagine a room full of computers with hand waving robots whirring around running unit, functional, and system tests of a new app.
Then imagine filing a bug report with explicit steps to reproduce.
Oh, this will be fun.
My opinion is that MS doesn't do well with simplicity and minimalism. You might say that Win 8 is a step in that direction but in order to use Modern well, you need a touchscreen. Add this new sensor, that's 4 different interfaces. That's not simpler; it's more complex.
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I want a keyboard, a mouse and Windows 7. Anything GUI wise that belongs on a phone/tablet or involves me talking out loud or waving at my PC, well basically, sod off.
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I believe that is the gesture for "ask nVidia for an open API."
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I really don't get. Why is it so hugely popular on /. to jump on Apple so hard? People go on and on and how expensive it is jokes and so on, but I just don't get it. OS X, IMO has been very stable since 10.3. and Mavericks is very stable, regardless whether you like the new UI or not. Heck, OS X has been amazingly secure when you consider the amount of users /hackers concentrating their efforts on the platform.
I would say, at the present time, Apple is much more inventive than Microsoft. And yet Microsoft gets the most market share each year. For what? For fucks sake, the Windows Mobile is EXACTLY the same as Windows CE! Oh wait...it's bigger. And they have a tablet version of the same fucking thing! Surely that is innovative, right?
Also, people bitch like hell over how much iOS 7 sucks because of the new UI, except these are the very same asshats who claim Apple suxs and never innovates. If you hate Apple so much, why are you so upset when they change the product?.
People can say and think what they want of course, but at this point, I would much rather get behind Apple than those D-bags in Redmond or trust google to look after my privacy.
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I really REALLY don't want to take my hands off the keyboard to do some stupid-ass gesture.
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