Microsoft Kinect
for Windows
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As well as being an games controller for the Xbox Microsoft Kinect is now marketed as a programmable device with developer support for use as an interface. We are considering Kinect as an interface for the Digital Bloom installation - features arm-waving making flowers sway, reaching out and choosing a flower, picking a flower to play a video, sound, show a message etc
Some background info on Kinect
- Wikipedia page on the Kinect
- Lee Scott, an Academic Evangelist within the Developer and Platform Evangelism ‘DPE’ Group at Microsoft UK discussed the Microsoft Kinect within teaching, learning and research at FOTE11. Slideshare (here) and video (here)