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Gestures and face recognition: coming soon to your PC

Matthew| January 3, 2012
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Kinect is coming to the PC, not as a hack but as a commercial product with dedicated PC hardware, in early 2012, according to the Kinect for Windows Blog. Some of the changes for the PC version include: a shorter USB cable and new firmware for ‘close up’ applications. You can download the SDK now.

 

Kinect offers PC users some unique capabilities that change the way people interact with their computers, including:

 

  • Skeletal tracking
  • Motion sensing
  • Voice recognition
  • Facial recognition

For example, Calum Cawley, a fourth-year engineering student at IT Sligo and part of the Microsoft Imagine Cup winning team, is using Kinect in his final year project. He’s tracking the movement of actors on the stage and projecting virtual costumes onto them. See different ways people are using Kinect.

 

This is a guest post from our friends at Microsoft MSDN.

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