It is incredible how much potential there is to take Microsoft’s Kinect technology which recognizes body movements in 3D and develop an interface which allows the human body to communicate with a PC – without the need for a mouse. One recent development is DepthJS which uses JavaScript to translate a small number of hand gestures into commands executed by a browser.
The video above shows how it is done – sure it is clunky now, as the interface is still new – but there is lots of potential here for specific applications and while I am in no specific hurry to bury my mouse, it seems like the electronic rodent has had a nice run and perhaps it is time to take the touch interface of smartphones and tablets and marry it with a 3D interface to eliminate desktop mammals altogether.
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