Using Kinect to detect where you are in a room so that your home automation can turn off the lights in the parts where you are not makes a lot of sense. Regular motion cameras can do this now, but Kinect can do this better, since it knows what constitutes a “person” and can adjust accordingly so you’re not sitting in the dark for no good reason. [Nitrogen via Crunchgear]
Natalie Vincent
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 12:51 PMYeah, but how much electricity will the machine that turns the light of use? I bet it’s more than a light bulb.
Francis Rubinstein
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:52 AMThat’s extremely cool! I’m curious as to how much of the activity recognition stuff you had to write yourself as opposed to what comes in the Kinect software.