ICT MxR lab responded to Google’s April Fools joke by implementing their gesture interface in about one hour. To accomplish that, they used a toolkit called FAAST (Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit) and implemented the program SLOOW (Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving). It uses the XBox Kinect system to capture the human motions. See for yourself what a simple prank can lead to:
ICT MxR lab responds to Google’s April Fools joke by implementing it
April 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Recovering from a hacked GMail and Google Apps account
December 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Amit Agarwal was recently the victim of a hacked Gmail account. He describes how he found out it was hacked, the steps he took to recover it, and advice on how to prepare (not prevent!) for when your account gets hacked.
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