One of the projects recently used to demonstrate Microsoft’s new Kinect software development kit for Windows was a quadrocopter control system — allowing a small remote-controlled aircraft to be directed around a room with voice commands and gestures, using the Microsoft Kinect sensor.
The first project that we saw on Microsoft’s Redmond campus was very preliminary — the result of a 24-hour coding marathon — and the level of precision was, well, less than precise. (Hopefully G4TV’s lighting survived the rest of that shoot.)
But a different group of researchers, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control in Zurich, are now demonstrating a far more advanced system.
Check out the video below, via Engadget.
Microsoft’s Kinect sensor retails for $150 for Xbox 360. The company has made the Kinect software development kit for Windows available for use initially by academics and other non-commercial software developers, with plans to release a new version for commercial applications in the future.