Or… trick. Just one. I’ve been poking around with Windows Phone more often lately. The system makes heavy use of multitouch gestures, and I thought it was a shame that it didn’t have some kind of multitouch emulation that came with its emulator. In the emulator all you get is the mouse, so you can’t [...]
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It’s here, in beta form! http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/download.aspx As part of Microsoft’s SDK launch event, then held a 24-hour ‘code camp’ in which small teams had 24 hours to produce something cool with the Kinect. I was invited to participate, and made a simple app that turns the user into a cylon! It turned out quite well. [...]
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 [...]
