Now that touchscreens have begun permeating the landscape, gesture control looks like the next frontier for PC input technology. Systems based on AMD's Richland APUs will come with gesture control software that relies on webcam input. In just a couple of months, Leap is set to start selling high-resolution gesture tracking hardware at Best Buy. And then there's Microsoft's Kinect, which started on the Xbox 360 and has been available for the PC for some time. A new version of the Kinect for Windows SDK was released today, and Microsoft is calling it the most significant update since the original developer kit was came out last year.
Microsoft's Kinect for Windows blog has the goods on version 1.7 of the SDK, which includes a collection of core interface gestures in addition to a nifty 3D mapping tool. Dubbed Kinect Interactions, the interface gestures were designed to standardize core functions, allowing application developers to focus on other ...
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