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ggrobot
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 Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:14 pm Post subject: Kinect hack lets you control Win7 using gestures [30003] |
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Some bright minds at the MIT\'s Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group have developed the DepthJS an interactive system which lets Microsoft Kinect talk to JavaScript which in turn allows you to browse web pages:
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gx-x
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| my mouse let's me do that too! Just install StrokeIt and you're good to go, it's also free... |
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Csimbi
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| In Firefox there are mouse gestures, too... |
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gx-x
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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there are, but that aside, even if there weren't, stroke it can be customized globally and/or for individual apps. What I'm saying is you can have gestures in notepad as well as in firefox and have them off in photoshop obviously 
If I'd to gesture with kintetic thing, I would probably turn over half my room, break many stuff, including the kinetic (I get frustrated sometimes  ) |
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Koogle
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:00 am Post subject: |
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yeah I'm a longtime user of strokeit, its a windows power user essential.
however I have it disabled for firefox.. Firegesture offers better customizable functionality built in, including custom scripts.. can't do that through using strokeit, neither can you get rocker/wheel gestures.. so not much point in it being enabled for that browser.
as for kinetic gestures.. well I suppose if I inhereted a kenetic device you can bet I'd use it for gesturing on PC, its a no brainer. However this MIT effort of making an app that is useful as strokeit is pretty damn poor for an entire team. They should have designed it for controlling music apps like winamp running in the background.. left hand gesture flicks for skipping tracks,play/pause, dubbing forward 5/10 sec etc..(while right hand rests on mouse, that's multitasking ) way more useful than shitty spastic browsing gesturing.. can do that shit with a mouse+mousewheel +gesturing far quicker.
.. anyway its still not got enough thoroughly developed third party tools to warrant an overpriced purchase for what it is. |
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gx-x
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:57 am Post subject: |
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i'd bet you'd kill people with it...
as for firefox, i use firegestures, disabled stroke it for firefox, anyway, it's a choice, and it's free. That's my point.
I see myself cracking beer bottles all over the place with kinetic...I see my friends cracking even more... |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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^^ I see my self watching porn with Kinekt  |
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Csimbi
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| tride wrote: | | ^^ I see my self watching porn with Kinekt |
LOL
Just watching, or beating the rhythm as well? |
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gx-x
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| tride wrote: | | ^^ I see my self watching porn with Kinekt |
I am not sure that I understand mechanics of this  |
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