Kinect hand detection = Minority Report interface?

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The indubitably cool (though possibly non-ergo) gesture interface seen in the movie Minority Report as well as amazing real-world projects like Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense are mirrored in his Kinect hand detection experiment by Garratt Gallagher of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Pretty sweet, and you don’t even need cool cyber-gloves!

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