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We came across an interesting article on a project to use your hands to control computers similar to what you might see in movies such as Minority Report. Could this be the future for video games as well?
Using a $30 dollar camera and this piece of Podtech software that’s still in development, you can play with computers just like Tom Cruise did in Minority Report, by grabbing files by the nipples and dragging them around the screen. Using topological depth technology, it figures out what’s the static background, and differentiates it between the changing foreground….
[Via thelastboss.com]
MS, research, Podtech
Original post by Kezins and software by Elliott Back
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