Kinect socket server hack brings gesture recognition to Flash, Silverlight, and more

Thanks to the clever work of Blitz, a marketing agency, you will soon be able to easily interface any program to Microsoft Kinect. Rather than having to hack at the low-level C++ OpenKinect driver, Blitz's solution is to create a socket server, which other programs -- including Flash and Silverlight websites -- can then interrogate.

The installation process is a bit finickity -- it's a very quick and dirty hack -- but the potential applications are immense. Take a look at the demo video from Blitz (after the break), and then imagine playing all of our Time Wasters with just a few hand gestures...

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