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We’ve talked quite recently to Skeltrack, the Open Source project with the help of that achieves GFreenect Kinect becomes a perfect device to control the interface GNOME Shell through gestures .

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The result can be spectacular, as demonstrated by Joaquim Rocha in a new video posted on Vimeo in which we can see how Joaquim controls the interface with gestures in a fairly accurate and fast, and WIN also plays a com or Tuxracer games pretending to have a flyer in his hand.

demo application is published under GPL , and you can find the same code on GitHub, so if you have Kinect and want to try, and you can do … and tell us!

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development and consulting company called Igalia Spanish has published a book called Open Source Skeltrack allows keeping track of our “skeleton” with the help of Kinect , the celebrated peripheral born to complement the Xbox 360 from Microsoft.

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show at The H Open, the library has been developed with GLib and tracks from various parts of our body. Joaquim Rocha, a member of the team, says Skeltrack uses heuristics and math to extract that information.

Skeltrack time-that uses the Open Source library GFreenect, also Igalia-can test it with a user, and WIN can record up to seven joints of the skeleton that track the movement head, shoulders, elbows and hands.

can find more information about the project in the official announcement on the blog Igalia, and also the documentation is in the Igalia website. The source code is hosted on GitHub so that anyone interested can download, compile and start using free . We leave you with a video Skeltrack in action :

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