Well, that took entirely too long. Anyway, I tried out the idea I mentioned in my last post and it didn’t go very well. Oh well. Basically, the idea was to provide an analog of mouse down/mouse up events using the Kinect with a hand cursor by having the user touch their hands together. If both hands were together, consider that the equivalent of a ‘down’ event. When they came apart, consider it an ‘up’ event.
It doesn’t work that well because your non-cursor arm gets really tired moving up to reach the other hand, and then back down when you’re done. Particularly if you’re already reaching out pretty far with your cursor hand to reach a far corner of the screen, touching it with your other hand can be damn near impossible.
So, this idea fizzled. The search for something better than hover continues!
