Kinect what can it do

Every Xbox One comes with a new Kinect sensor — a powerful peripheral that lets the game console read your heart rate and respond to your voice commands. In our review of the Xbox One , however, we discovered that the Kinect typically only recognizes extremely specific vocal cues like "Xbox turn off" and "Xbox Bing.

Microsoft just released a cheat sheet with a host of examples. In addition to useful commands like "Xbox Snap" and "Xbox Play," for example, you can also say "Xbox Help" on any screen or in any app to bring up a simplified user manual. Take a peek at a partial list of commands below, and view the rest at our source link in printable PDF form. You'll also find hand gestures that the Kinect can recognize to scroll through the dashboard, and zoom in and out in apps like Internet Explorer.

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Stroke Recovery With Kinect is a project sponsored by Microsoft Research and Seoul National University with the aim of providing a low-cost home rehabilitation solution for stroke victims. Users will be given exercises that will improve their motor functions. This allows the patients to recover from home under private care or with family, instead of hospital environments.

Their recovery levels can be measured and monitored by the system, and researchers believe the game-like atmosphere generated will help patients recover faster. Researchers in China, in collaboration with Microsoft Research, developed the Kinect Sign Language Translator , a system that can translate sign language into spoken and written language in near real time. This is also helpful to people who speak different sign languages — there are more than sign languages practiced around the world.

The Kinect, coupled with the right program, can read these gestures , interpret them and translate them into written or spoken form, then reverse the process and let an avatar sign to the receiver , breaking down language barriers more effectively than before. Surgeons in the middle of a surgery may need certain information about their patient and this requires them to interact with non-sterile surfaces which may be detrimental to the surgery.

Hence, they need to scrub out or depend on auxiliary team members to extract that info from them. With GestSure however, they can use gestures to manipulate images via the Kinect , from inside the operating room. Not only does this minimize problems from information transfer, it also saves time by giving surgeons access to the data they need as soon as possible.

Have you seen Minority Report come on, who hasn't? Once the technology is miniaturized to the point where it can be put into a phone the hearing impaired will never have to worry about being misunderstood again. But it gets even better than that. This technology suddenly makes it possible for deaf people to perform the same jobs that would be otherwise impossible, like customer service or physician. Ok, so, the Kinect kind of already does this on the Xbox. Swiping your hand dismissively left or right will navigate menus and take you wherever in the system you care to go.

GestSure will use a Kinect-based system to allow the doctor to wave their hands or their head, or even just waggle their eyebrows to bring up important medical images without needing to take off their gloves and use a keyboard.

Oh that pesky pancreas, always disappearing on me. The extent of my hacking capabilities goes about as far as guessing correctly what a wifi password is - that is to say, I have no hacking ability whatsoever. Kinectasploit will let anyone use their Kinect to hack a computer. Have you seen those little projection keyboards that turn your table into a keyboard? Well, the Kinect can do that, and so much more. It can turn any surface into a navigable touch screen.

Because the Kinect can see in three dimensions, it can tell where your hands are in relation to the objects around it. You can then program the Kinect to recognize any surface as a touch screen, and then command that touch screen to do whatever you want.

Touchless Touch is one such company that sells software that uses the Kinect to turn surfaces into touchscreens. I buy a lot of clothes online, and I often regret it when I order the wrong size and have to return things. If only there were a device that could let me try on clothes from the comfort of my own office. Kinect to the rescue! Just place your hand below the sensor-rigged dispenser, and presto—instant mouthful of cavities!

This hack is still prototyping, but the idea sounds reasonable enough: Use Kinect to build a low-cost, ready-to-roll robot that ships with Linux and Robot OS or ROS preinstalled. The parts: a cheap but powerful computer, a robotic base such as a Roomba , the Kinect sensor, ROS, and the mounting hardware to patch it all together. Well, the seat and flush handle, anyway.

You could interact with your plumbing in never-before-experienced ways. Now if this guy would just rig Kinect to open and close the bathroom door, the obsessive-compulsive cycle would be complete. Who wants to be a superhero? Want to toss killer boomerangs? Want to shoot laser beams from your head?