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This video wants to make me rip my eyes out using the edge of my Xbox gamepad, but it heralds an immediate future that fires a clusterstorm of nerdgasms inside my sci-fi-damaged brain. It shows what Capri, the next 3D sensor by the makers of Microsoft Kinect, is bringing to us: extreme precision, fast motion tracking that gadget makers would be able to embed everywhere, from your tablet, laptop and TV to elevators, robots and appliances.
It basically enables a future in which you are some kind of Jedi or wizard, casually waving your hand at things to make them work.
Capri is the next generation of sensors from the inventors of Kinect, one that it’s focused on miniaturisation so manufacturers can put it everywhere. It’s not RGB—so it doesn’t pick up colour—but that’s needed if you want to make that bar tiny enough to fit in everyday devices with the same resolution of Microsoft’s wonderbar.
The product is already in the hands of developers. I can’t wait for a world that will let me be Darth Vader on a daily basis. [IEEE]
…and your journey to the dark side will be complete!
What an awful, awful video.
I thought it was quite in depth, exciting and mesmerising too. I think it’ll probably give Twilight a run for it’s money.
All that ‘sensing’, and he delivers a wedding proposal attached to a hoover. Genius.
Incredibly cheesy video. I liked it.
Just makes me think of Minority Report. Anything Like this does.
Also, the guy reminds me of Jared Leto and has EXTREMELY girly eyes at the beginning when he turns and sees the girl.
AAAAWWWWW, and then he gets out a wedding ring how sweeeeeeeeeeeeet! Happy, happy, jumpy, clappy scream, shotgun
Sorry i agree with Loudacrish. It was a sh*t video. Kinnect is crap anyways. They done so much false advertisement on the kinnect that I dont trust them.
Sounds like to me there ditching there gamers. Well to be fair the games that are out for the kinnect these days are AWFUL.
funny, my niece and nephew love their kinnect….. i think most young people do.
These beautiful people make me want to gouge my eyes out! arrrrrrrrrrrrrrg, there much better.
So basically what they’re doing is.. reducing the size of the sensor in line with Moore’s law (which is a natural characteristic of technology), to make a miniature version of an ineffective technology that already exists.
To me, it sounds like the company is looking to squeeze as much moolah as they possibly can out of their 2010 product, and calling it an innovation, which is a shame. But I guess that is the industry standard these days (see. iPhone5)
Given they’re the makers of the Kinect, they don’t show much allegiance to Microsoft with all those Apple products on display…