Possible uses of skeleton tracking:
- guitar effect pedal: holding the strumming hand away from the guitar gradually increases the gain, etc.
- enable UI navigation when control using voice, a touchscreen, or a mouse and keyboard is inadequate
- home automation: the thermostat can determine when the house is occupied
- improve home security systems by distinguishing between humans and other large IR blobs, or even between humans doing something benign and humans that are within a certain proximity or moving aggressively
- facilitate 3D video conferencing
- make more CGI accessible to small production studios through inexpensive motion capture
- arbitrate sports events by recording the positions of athletes in 3D space
- improve autonomous vehicle navigation/obstacle avoidance
- display immersive, multi-user 3D content when combined with active shutter lens glasses; the tracked skeletons can render a scene from a user’s perspective, and shutter lens glasses can restrict each user to seeing only the frames rendered for their perspective
- augment existing UI; head tracking could be used to assign window focus on a desktop or change a camera perspective in a game
Gavin