{"id":9015,"date":"2010-12-02T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/kinect_depthjs_web_browser_interface.html"},"modified":"2010-12-02T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T08:34:16","slug":"kinect-depthjs-web-browser-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/kinect-depthjs-web-browser-interface.html","title":{"rendered":"Kinect + DepthJS = Web Browser Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is incredible how much potential there is to take Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect technology which recognizes body movements in 3D and develop an interface which allows the human body to communicate with a PC &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17180651\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video above shows how it is done &#8211; sure it is clunky now, as the interface is still new &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>More from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/computing\/26822\/page1\/\">Technology Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2010\/11\/browse-the-web-with-your-bare-hands\/67160\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/17180651\">Vimeo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is incredible how much potential there is to take Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect technology which recognizes body movements in 3D and develop an interface which allows the human body to communicate with a PC &#8211; without the need for a mouse. One recent development is DepthJS which uses JavaScript to translate a small number of hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,198,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}