Very psyched to start messing around with the Kinect! It’s amazing that such a huge amount of things can be done with a damned console peripheral.

Looking through the MediaArtTube playlist was really interesting. Daniel Rozin’s motorized mirrors are really amazing devices, and the wooden one is an easy favorite. The material is wonderfully natural in a Scrabble-tile kind of way, and the wood makes for a really interesting sound texture for the sea of clicking coming from the rig.

Our nerd compatriots at MIT fashioned this Minority Report style interface with the Kinect. This is a really awesome technology that I can see becoming an actual reality with some serious time and effort.

Another awesome Kinect interface in a similar style is the physics based drawing application DaVinci. The user makes gestures to draw shapes on the screen as well as to perform a variety of physics-based actions with the drawn objects.