We all have been waiting for this to come. It finally is and we will soon get to have our Microsoft Kinect motion controller to be used in conjunction with Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Sliverlight. Blitz, the marketing company, will in a few hours from now (tomorrow 8 a.m. Pacific time), lift the wraps off a new software that would allow this.
The new software may be believed to the result of efforts aimed at opening up Microsoft’s Kinect to more types of user control schemes. The result in fact is awesome, as you can see from the video posted below.
Blitz has brought into play a C++ application to send all the basic data to a socket server which thereby connects to other technology to the socket.
For this, it makes use of Kinect data. Blitz has in fact linked Xbox Kinect hardware to Adobe Flash via Node.js to make this happen.
The source code for the project would be released at the Blitz Labs site, we hear. One significant aspect about this new technology by Blitz is that the processing gets done outside of Flash, thereby not affecting the computer’s resources at all.
As explained by Blitz, by just the forward motion of your hand, you will be able to turn and move objects on the screen.
Look out for the release time and head for Blitz Labs website if you are really interested. The video, we are sure, has everything to lure you there.
Flash Kinect Demo from BLITZ Agency on Vimeo.
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