A few of us from the MIT Media Lab got excited about connecting the Microsoft Kinect to the web, back when the Kinect was first launched. We created an API in Javascript that allowed any website to talk to the Kinect, and we also built several demos showing how it could be used.
Navigating the web is only one application of the framework we built - we envisioned all sorts of applications that run in the browser, from games to specific utilities for specific sites. The great part is that now web developers who specialize in Javascript can work with the Kinect without having to learn any special languages or code.
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