Use Kinect, Jokes Gmail Motion to Reality

On 1 April, Google's April Fool's jokes about Gmail Motion, the Gmail service is operated by movement of the body.

Accompanied by a video featuring speakers the people of Google, the video look like real news. But it turns out, is just hoax.

Now, the engineer from the University of Southern California (USC), United States, try to realize the joke became reality.

You do this by using special software and Kinect Microsoft that has been modified, they can control the email using body movements.

Quoted from the Washington Post, Thursday (07/04/2011), this is not the first modified Kinect USC engineers in ICT MXR Lab. Previously, they also never use the motion sensor technology in Kinect to play a variety of games, one of World of Warcraft, a full-body modes.

With the help of software called SLOOW (Software Library Optimizing Obligatory permanent waving), the engineer is to prove that the joke Gmail Motion may be used in the future.

In a demo video posted to video sharing site YouTube, Evan Suma, one engineer at the USC test these technologies, for example, perform a variety of hand gestures such as sending, writing or opening an email.

source : detikINET