See It In Action
Now Offering Microsoft® Kinect® Touch Applications
Next Level Touch uses Intuilab Software for all Microsoft Kinect touch projects. Watch the sample video to see it in action.
- People Detection: detects people in front of the Kinect sensor and displays a live video of sensor input
- Gestures: manages gestures detection
- Letter Gestures: manages letter postures detection
- Command Postures: manages command postures detection
Control media without touching the screen
Kinect Gestures
Intuitive gestures include detection of push,wave, swipe left and swipe right. The user can use left/right swipes to control the navigation or to move through a collection of images or content. The push gesture is used to open the item that is in focus. Users can also use the wave gesture to reset a space.
Properties:
- Enable Gesture Swipe Left
- Enable Gesture Swipe Right
- Enable Gesture Push
- Enable Gesture Wave
Triggers
- Push detected –> Raised when a Push gesture is detected.
- Swipe Left detected –> Raised when a Swipe Left gesture is detected.
- Swipe Right detected –> Raised when a Swipe Right gesture is detected.
- Wave detected –> Raised when a Wave gesture is detected.
Kinect Letter Gestures
This Interface Asset detects when the user in front of the sensor is in a posture with the shape of the letters A, T, U or V. From these triggers you can call any action.
Properties:
- Enable Posture A
- Enable Posture T
- Enable Posture U
- Enable Posture V
Triggers
- Posture detected –> Raised when the posture is detected.
- Posture detection in progress –> Raised when posture detection is in progress. You can bind its parameter to a Linear Gauge to see the progress.
- Posture lost –> Raised when the posture is lost.
Kinect Command Postures
This Interface Asset detects when the user in front of the sensor is in a posture with one of three shapes referred to as Home, Wait & Stay. (see picture below). From these triggers you can call any IntuiFace action..
Properties:
- Enable Gesture Swipe Left
- Enable Gesture Swipe Right
- Enable Gesture Push
- Enable Gesture Wave
Triggers
- Push detected –> Raised when a Push gesture is detected.
- Swipe Left detected –> Raised when a Swipe Left gesture is detected.
- Swipe Right detected –> Raised when a Swipe Right gesture is detected.
- Wave detected –> Raised when a Wave gesture is detected.
Known limitations
- Kinect software currently provides people, gesture and posture detection. Pointing and direct manipulation with the hand will be available in future versions.
- If you put more than one Interface Asset of each type in your experience, only the original will be functional.
- Software supports only Kinect for Windows and not Kinect for Xbox 360 (due to Microsoft licensing limitations)