I was playing around with the Kinect SDK the other day, so far its pretty impressive, however I fail to see how this technology will help anyone in the real world except help you look like a tool dancing around your living room trying to out dance someone on xbox live on dance central.
Fair enough I can see use for the voice recognition system and from the tests I was able to perform it works quite well for in any normal sized room. this could be used for people with disabilities.
My father suffers from Parkinson's disease, pretty much sucks for him and I can see the frustration with him trying to use a mouse and keyboard, breaks my heart sometimes. the issue is ease of use.
I bought dragon naturally speaking for him the other day, but for someone like him it sucks, most of the systems need hours of training and aren't very good at picking up commands.
you need to have the mike set at the same position every time you want to use it and its difficult for people with difficulties.
I wonder if there would be an easier way of doing things without the hassle of voice training and having to remember a million keywords for achieving a simple search on Google. something with some AI (Artificial Intelligence), that could prompt a user on what they are trying to achieve, sort of like a digital assistant.
I had an after thought, the Computer vision system of the kinect could be used for deaf people and interpret sign language, into the same sort of computer control. or even automatic sign to English conversation for the hearing in a room.
Would you use something like this? imagine being on your couch and talking to your PC like it was a super smart buddy you call when you cant get something right on your machine.
the idea of just talking to a computer and telling it to do stuff is pretty brilliant - nobody has got that right yet
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