Xbox 360′s Kinect has been a popular target for many hackers and developers recently and it’s all been about the baby steps on the way to what could ultimately amount to some pretty useful homebrew. Some students at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group attempting to redefine the human-machine interactive experience have cooked up a pretty good example to show just that.They have created DepthJS, a system that makes Javascript communicate to Microsoft’s Kinect in order to navigate web pages, among other things. It isn’t saying that it is the best way to navigate a web site but it definitely demonstrates that you can. Hopefully the hacking community picks up the work and evolves it into a multitouch remote control plugin for our home theater PCs.

If you are one of the many who are willing to step outside of the developer-friendly borders of open-source software then you will definitely want to check out Evoluce’s gesture solution based on the company’s Multitouch Input Management (MIM) driver for Kinect. The most impressive part is its support for simultaneous miltitouch and multiuser control of applications (including those like Flash and Java) running on a Windows 7 PC. Evoluce promises to release software “soon” to bridge Kinect and Windows 7. You can check out the videos below:

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Authors: TechHead

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