Gestures

We hope you all had a fabulous Memorial Day- and now that vacation is over let's get back to the hottest Microsoft news this side of Redmond. Xbox ONE...what else?   [04:28] LeapMotion  [12:14] NFL and Microsoft  [15:30] New training brochure for Windows 8  [19:17]  

Joe Fletcher works in the Surface team, and is focused on identifying design approaches which best utilize touch-based interfaces for both Surface as well as Windows 7. In this episode we will discuss with Joe some of the concepts that he will be expanding upon in his upcoming session at MIX09.…

Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back, this week with two different updates and projects. Today... Kinect Magic Cursor version 1.7 with Gesture supportI am releasing a new version of Kinect Magic Cursor which works much like the last version except it now uses gestures to simulate the left…

Larry Gregory talked to Anand Agarawala, Patrick Dubroy from BumpTop at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston hosted by Sanjay Jain. With few days of design and development effort BumpTop  brings a 3-D desktop leveraging multi-touch and patented advanced…

Larry Gregory talked to the team of Kevin Mann and Tony Williams of http://www.takepublishing.com at a recent Bizspark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.Their solution called TakeComics finally solves the problem of trying to find that missing issue of your favorite comic as well as…

Gestures are getting hot, are they not? Lately, I’ve noticed a bunch of apps that let you use mouse gestures to execute predefined commands or actions. But this is hardly a new trend…apps like StrokeIt, the Windows-only global mouse gestures app were getting attention as far back as spring 2007. So…

Watch upcoming and on-demand webcasts on Windows Multiscreen. Discover how to blend the best technology, innovation and creativity to create stunning applications across multiple devices. Learn from subject matter experts how to use Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight 4 and Internet Explorer 9 to…

With last week's announcement of Windows 8 (which you can now catch on-demand here, Windows Phone Summit), it feels like a Mobile Monday kind of day. With touch devices, like the Windows Phone, it's important that we take advantage of gestures, making them a integral part of our applications. You're…

It looks like it's a Double David week. Friend of the Gallery, David Catuhe, who's Kinect Toolbox project we highlighted yesterday, has taken an additional step to help you in your Kinect For Windows development journey... Book about Kinect and Gestures, "Programming with the Kinect for Windows…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch…