At the heart of a user’s desire to interact with the Kinect is the ability to physically manipulate a digital reality. It is an experience that is nigh on magical for most people. Just imagine if you were to obscure a Kinect from someone’s view and enable them to wield the environment about them. Perhaps in a kitchen setting, a person could stand in a spot and control all the appliances surrounding them solely with hand gestures. Or in a department store, as soon as a person walked in front of a two-way mirror, clothing that the store was retailing could ...
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5. Body & Face Tracking
Mansib Rahman1
(1)Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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