Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller has sparked a robotics and 3D revolution, inspiring innovations that allow vacuum cleaners to be controlled with a hand gesture and surgeons to flick through medical scans without touching them in the operating theatre.Features announced at Microsoft’s press conference at the E3 video game trade show – such as finger-tracking and whole-body scans – already exist, albeit as hidden capabilities.Within weeks of its launch last November, gamers, developers and scientists reverse engineered the Kinect’s capabilities and created new applications.
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Microsoft embraces hackers’ use of Kinect
Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller has sparked a robotics and 3D revolution, inspiring innovations that allow vacuum cleaners to be controlled with a hand gesture and surgeons to flick through medical scans without touching them in the operating theatre.