Kinected Browser Lets You Flick Through Websites

mikejuk writes "The Kinect is well supported by a good and evolving SDK on the desktop, but until now using it in a browser wasn't easy. Now Microsoft Research has a free JavaScript API, Kinected Browser, that lets you integrate the Kinect with HTML. The bad news is that it only works on Windows 7 and 8 and in desktop mode only. In addition the browser has to be IE9 or IE 10. The good news is that more programmers know how to do HTML5 graphics than know how to work with DirectX or .NET. As a result this could lead to another burst of innovative Kinect applications."

Re:To limited an Audience

[sideslash]

That is changing, though, and Microsoft is slowly getting their reputation as a credible browser vendor back. Also, many people who develop for the Windows 8 RT environment will choose the new option to write a native app in HTML+javascript, which basically means living in the IE rendering engine.

Re:Better Mousetrap

[fpgaprogrammer]

I'm the founder of Zigfu. We support both Kinect SDK and OpenNI with our browser plugin so we can run on both PC and Mac. Zigfu also runs in IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari because we built our plugin both as an ActiveX and NPAPI plugin. Our QA matrix is nasty.