Kinect With Qt Makes Cursor Out Of Your Hand

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Kinect With Qt Makes Cursor Out Of Your Hand

Microsoft's Kinect paired with the Qt tool-kit can allow using your hand as an input device, or what the developers are calling an "air cursor" for this open-source project...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyODY

[Alex Sarmiento]

Now that's interesting

[scionicspectre]

Wow, it suddenly seems applicable. It will be interesting to see how touch screens and motion sensors will play together in the near-future.

[clavko]

Yawn.
Hasn't this already been done, and much better?

[disi]

And here as well:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

[plonoma]

Air cursors I love it!
Makes everything easier to work with each other.

Want this on all mobile phones and devices with touchscreen.

[89c51]

There is also this http://leapmotion.com/

[disi]

There is also this http://leapmotion.com/

Anyone can use The Leap to interact with Windows 7/8 or Mac OS X by clicking, grabbing, scrolling and using familiar gestures like pinch to zoom in 3D space.

further down

How about Linux?

Linux support is on the agenda.

This looks really cool

[NomadDemon]

if i would test it by myself...

[schmidtbag]

you can do this with a standard webcam. the "click" feature would be a lot more difficult to accomplish but you can at the very least effortlessly control a mouse pointer using any webcam or really any object you want; i've seen it done with a ~400 line python script