A group of French hackers and developers have put together a cool demo of the Xbox Kinect understanding French sign language. Right now, it only supports two words (bonjour and desole, hello and sorry respectively).
Read more at Popular Science.
I was waiting for this to happen, after seeing so many hacks and cool tricks being done with the Kinect. As the article says though, the Kinect’s camera is probably not high resolution enough to capture the full range of sign language. But it’s undeniably cool!
I’d love to see a fun game where you have to sign various words to move forward in the game. It would be an excellent tool to introduce people to some basic sign language as well as gestures.
