MIX11: Microsoft demos Kinect SDK with WorldWide Telescope

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Ahead of its imminent release tomorrow, Microsoft today gave a sneak peek of what might be possible with the official Kinect SDK at the MIX11 conference with a brief demo of a new version of the WorldWide Telescope . The demo involves navigating the imaged universe on the WorldWide Telescope software with gestures controlled by both hands including zooming, rotating and panning. Although the gestures were fairly simple, the demo was still impressive how accurate and smooth it was, considering how twitchy gesture-based applications usually are

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MIX11: Microsoft demos Kinect SDK with WorldWide Telescope

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