Friday, August 13, 2010

Kinect Will Read Sign Language, Paving Way For New Input Methods

It's not just your clumsy leg-kicks that Kinect will understand, with a newly-discovered patent showing that it's actually capable of understanding American Sign Language, or ASL. Is this another way to input text to the game? It could be, if you actually know ASL—it's estimated that anywhere up to 2 million people in the US know sign language. At the very least, leaning how to sign could help save you from forking out for a keyboard peripheral.

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