| Icyedge said: "Imagine sorting through the music on your computer with the wave of a hand, or typing on a virtual keyboard." Im not sure it would work better than what we use now... |
It sounds cool on paper, but the reality is it's a lot easier to push a D pad (okay, so maybe not the Xbox D pad) or a button to move through a list quickly than to wave your hand.
Even if the velocity tracking worked like the track pad on a MacBook Pro, Kinect wouldn't likely be calibrated to accept tiny finger motions or it would likely end up misinterpreting small hand motions as user input.
I'm completely unconvinced that Kinect is accurate enough to allow for typing on a virtual keyboard unless it was a half screen/full screen Wii like interface where you pointed to individual keys one at a time as opposed to touch typing in the air with all ten digits at say, 60 words per minute.
We'll see though.
But part of the limitation I'm already seeing based on the MS spec sheet is that that the camera uses a standard definition 640x480 data stream resolution rather than a multi megapixel feed that could detect much finer detail.
Voice control on the other hand (depending more upon software and voice recognition code), could make things simpler although even this is a bit suspect given that we've still yet to really see good voice recognition implemented in MS Windows.
