Hacking the Kinect with Flash in a Mapping Application
At this year's DevSummit , I did a couple of demo theater presentations. One of them was about hacking the Microsoft Kinect using the Flash platform in a mapping application. Here is a video. Kinect is a very successful and important product for Microsoft. And if you ever played with it using an XBox, you will understand why it is a very neat piece of technology. Now, have you see the movie " Minority Report " ? Remember in the beginning of the movie when Tom Cruise step up to a console and started waving his hands to manipulate images ( video )? One of the gestures that most fascinated me was the one where he twisted his wrist while his fingers were pretending to grab a baseball size object. That twisting gesture moved a sequence of images through time. Twist to the right and the sequence moves forward in time. Twist to the left and the sequence moves back in time. In the movie, he went back and forth to detect a pattern in that time sequence. Now, wouldn't be c...