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Xbox One’s Kinect Sensor Is Officially Coming To Windows Next Year
We knew that the Kinect would be coming to Windows eventually, but it looks like Xbox One’s groundbreaking new Kinect sensor won’t be stuck tethered to a console for long. Microsoft has just announced that the new and improved motion-tracking system will definitely be hitting Windows sometime next year — but exactly when remains hazy.
Watch Leap Motion Turn A Windows 8 Rig Into A Futuristic Dream Machine
We’ve already seen what the Leap Motion can do in apps that support it, but it stands to make your everyday OS-level boredom into a futuristic gesture-controlled wonderland too. This new video shows exactly what kind of applications you can look forward to on your Windows 8 machine, at it seems at least as cool as touch.
Motion Control Is Awesome For Surgeons (Or Anyone With Bloody Hands)
High-fidelity motion control is awesome, but it’s not quite essential for most of us. For surgeons though, a motion-controlled interface like this one could be super useful.
The Gesture Control Of The Future Will Be In HP Computers This Year
Leap Motion isn’t just going to be a stand-alone product. The motion-control brand just announced a partnership with HP, meaning that you’ll be seeing several HP devices with Leap Motion technology bundled right in by the end of the year.
Could This Gesture Control Be Even Better Than Leap Motion?
Gesture control might just be one of the most exciting battlegrounds in tech right now. First there was Kinect, then the awesome Leap Motion — and now German company PMD Technologies claims to be able to beat them both.
Leap Motion + Hologram = The Future Of Awesomeness
Whether you like gesture control or not, Leap Motion’s fine-grain floating-finger input looks like pure future. And it only gets better when you’re controlling a pseudo-hologram with it. And that’s exactly what Robbie Tilton did with his Tony Stark-worthy setup.
Kinect’s New Multitouch Tricks Let You Pinch Thin Air To Zoom
Kinect has already received its fair share of excited attention from developers, but Microsoft is still exploring its limits too. It has managed to make it respond to mid-air, multitouch gestures.
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