Kinect tech may come to smart phones
Microsoft's recent acquisition of gesture recognition firm Canesta could mean a Kinect-type interface is coming to smart phones, according to a Reuters report.
Microsoft could be looking towards integrating Kinect technology with other devices, namely smart phones. Reuters (via CVG) offers a highly speculative, but nevertheless intriguing idea of how the company could be moving its pieces in place to make a serious jump in smart phone technology.
In 2010, Microsoft acquired the gesture recognition firm Canesta. The report states that with Canesta's engine in play, Kinect-like tech could shrink to roughly a square centimeter, which would allow it to fit in mobile devices like the Windows Phone. This would allow "natural user interfaces, autonomous navigation and many other tasks."
The report goes on to claim that this would help the robotics field as well. Connectivity to the "cloud" would expand robots' access to information, so simply connecting a cloud-enabled smart phone to a robot could function as its brain. Gestural and object recognition through Kinect would make it more advanced still. Yes, we know this sounds exactly like Skynet. Connecting the robots to each other and letting them recognize our frail human bodies is a terrible idea.
Of course, this is all one pundit's opinion, and even if true it could take quite a while before we see any such technology integration hitting the market. That means we have a little bit of time to find the robots' weakness before they become smarter and more aware, and turn all murdery.
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Microsoft's recent acquisition of gesture recognition firm Canesta could mean a Kinect-type interface is coming to smart phones, according to a Reuters report.-
Now that is just stupid.
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For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme. -- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 12.
And now, Microsoft's going to bring this to phones. Thanks, Microsoft.-
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Have you ever used Kinect?
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Not yet, but I did get to play EyeToy Antigrav once. That was a "wave your arms around searching for the point you wanted to hit" experience. Fun, but a bit exasperating at how slow it is to get the controls where you want them.
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lol, jesus
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For the most part, I agree. How about Kinect advanced enough to read your lips and combine that data with the voice recognition that's built into Kinect, though? It could increase the accuracy of recognizing what you're trying to say. Or allow for the creation of apps to have a smartphone read what people are saying across vast distances.
Also, Kinect allowing the camera to track where your eyes are and what they're looking at when using your phone could lead to navigation by looking... only. I like to imagine sunglasses that give you a HUD, allow you to watch a movie, or check the weather without moving hands, moving fingers, or saying a thing. Toss in night vision mode for the sunglasses and then finally we'd have a reason for people to be wearing sunglasses at indoors, at parties, and while driving at night.
Then we can have Predator vision where we see heat vision, zoom in with a triangle-shaped targeting reticule and rip people's heads from their bodies while roaring.
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At the very least facial recognition for unlocking and voice control could be useful.
Now if it recognized hand signals for things that might have some uses. -
Robots vs. Humans with powerful magnets, would it work?
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If you like folk music.
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