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theprof00 on 31 October 2010
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youarebadatgames said:
theprof00 said:

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http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/17/minority-report-interface-is-real-hitting-mainstream-soon-video/


Do you even bother read what you're furiously googling up?  The interface requires gloves, but besides that the how is important, because the way each company is going about it has different strengths, weaknesses, and challenges to overcome.  You'd know that if you did any sort of due diligence before dismissing the previous research simply because it came from your hated company MS.

See, MS went with Primesense's tech instead of 3DV because it's cheap.  We already see that because they're mass producing kinect.  The interesting applications will be in the specialized industries - military, medical, and even education.  I was just thinking about Primesense being Isreali and on a hunch it found that the company is headed by a former military analyst.  The implications of his work are obvious - automated security, sentry guns, deployable sensors - all likely due to the needs of Isreali security.  Kinect is just the cheap civilian version of the tech, but as time goes on it will be refined.  I suspect the US military is already looking at this to see where it will go.

First of all can you please leave your emotions at the door. I'm not furiously googling anything. I'm trying to help you see how the tech exists.

Obviously the video is different from the kinect one. It's a thousand times better. I'm trying to give you a sense of scope here. Kinect will not be in military medical...possibly education on a small scale. It's consumer tech. Medical and military require utmost reliability and precision, cost is not the issue.

Automated turrets already exist. It's for the sake of precision that they are not used, and IR is not the identifyer of choice for that.

Sadly, Kinect is not going to be used in turrets regardless of how hilarious it might be.

PS: "simply because it came from your hated company MS." C'mon man, you were so close to understanding... If you look at it objectively, you know I'm right. It's not an MS thing, it's not a Kinect thing, it's just not a very good tech. Do NOT attribute real criticism to hate, that only serves to hide the truth.