So, Thomas Gayno (@thm_a) at Creative Lab here in New York has been spending too much time with his friends at Larva Labs (they're the guys with whom we created the original Androidify app).

They've been messing around with Kinect and their Androidify avatars. This short, scrappy experimental film (below) points to the magic that is possible. We're working out how we might use this in some fun ways.

Any ideas?

From the video page on YouTube:

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This is a graphical interface inspired by the movie "Minority Report". It
uses the Kinect sensor from Microsoft, and the recently released
libfreenect driver for interfacing with the Kinect in linux. The
graphical interface and the hand detection software were written at MIT
to interface with the open source robotics package 'ROS', developed by
Willow Garage (willowgarage.com). The hand detection software showcases the abilities of
the Point Cloud Library (PCL), a part of ROS that MIT has been helping to
optimize. The hand detection software is able to distinguish hands and
fingers in a cloud of more than 60,000 points at 30 frames per second,
allowing natural, real time interaction.
Code available at:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect
http://www.ros.org/wiki/mit-ros-pkg

Work done by CSAIL's LIS Group (http://lis.csail.mit.edu/) and Robot Locomotion Group (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/locomotion/­)