KinectNUI enables Minority Report style interaction in Windows sans gloves (video)

When Microsoft released its Kinect SDK we marveled on the impact it will possibly have on desktop interaction; sure enough, Kevin Connolly’s Kinect Natural User Interface has made our geeky pipe-dreams a reality. His inspiration for project? Not surprisingly, the Minority Report UI (aka g-speak). Similar projects like MIT’s hack do exist, but it’s brilliant knowing that another emulation have been made rather quickly with Redmond’s tools. In a short lived video using the Kinect on Windows 7, he demos various ways of manipulating on-screen content with hand gestures and body tracking — neglecting his mouse within the process. It’s still a piece in progress, however the results are already quite striking, so take that ancient input device and click on past the break for the whole demo.