UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist

I posted recently about the great ‘Minority Report meets Surface’ project that Cynergy did.  Well, apparently Forbes read my post (I mean, they couldn’t have possibly seen it on YouTube).  They said:

Nintendo’s Wii Technology Moves Past The Game

The same ingenious controller that made the Nintendo (other-otc: NTDOY.PK - news - people ) Wii a popular gaming system has begun to spawn new technologies. In January, Washington, D.C.-based Cynergy Labs launched Project Maestro, a Rich Internet Application interface that uses infrared gloves integrated into a multi-touch Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows Presentation Foundation application. The glove allows users to interact with and navigate a Windows application without using a mouse or touching the computer.

Says the company, “this interface could be used in such business software applications as facilities management, scheduling solutions [and] data mining … anywhere that users need to interact with complex visualizations to make rapid snap decisions.” Technology based on the Wii remote is also being used to develop head-tracking systems that allow users to control their computer through head movements, and interactive white boards that can be written on with infrared pens.

Pretty cool.  View the entire article here.

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