This is how it should be done. Four researchers from MIT’s Media Lab have taken Microsoft’s wildly popular gaming interface to yet another level of amazing with a new project called Kinected.Conference.
In their own words: “What we can do if the screen in videoconference rooms can turn into an interactive display?â€
With Kinect camera and sound sensors, they explore
how expanding a system's understanding of spatially calibrated depth
and audio alongside a video stream can generate rich
three-dimensional pixels containing information regarding their properties and location.
The team created four features, which are "Talking
to Focus", "Freezing Former Frames", "Privacy Zone" and "Spatial
Augmenting Reality". A full explanation of the system they created,
along with diagrams, a storyboard of the process and
a load more detail is available on the Media Lab website.