14 DAY TRIAL // Well, it seem that not a day goes by without coming across some interesting new application for Microsoft's Kinect controller, but the one you'll read about as follows, created by the people over at Evoluce, is one of the most spectacular yet, especially given its huge potential it offers for all the Windows 7 users out there.
Evoluce is a a technology driven company, that offers multitouch and gesture computing solutions and was founded back in 2001 by Wolfgang Herfurtner, who also posted on YouTube the video we've attached at the end of the article, depicting the Microsoft Kinect hack used for controlling some of the features and functions of a computer running the Windows 7 operating system.
Given Evoluce's extensive experience in the field of multi-touch, it should come as no surprise that they've made short work of adapting the Kinect to their own multi-touch applications, enabling a variety of functions used when working with a Windows 7 computer, such as Click with Gesture, Media Center Access, On-Screen Keyboard and even the possibility to control web browsing.
What we really liked about this implementation (and we're pretty sure that you'll notice that for yourselves by watching the video) is that it all works in a pretty seamless manner, the Kinect doing a very good job at tracing the user's movements and translating them (via a software application, of course) into mouse movements, clicks and other commands.
As a conclusion, we'll have to mention that we're quite content with Microsoft's decision to become a lot less aggressive as far as its position towards developers “playing around” with the Kinect are concerned, simply because, as you can see for yourselves, with their help, the Kinect might ultimate prove to be a whole lot more than just a simple gaming controller, turning into the PC controller of the future (perhaps even the keyboard and mouse killer).