How Microsoft Kinect has inspired ‘the surgeon’s GPS’
RC.
Or...you can just a nurse to do it for you. Problem solved. Doctor can keep operating and just ask the nurse to check the records in the computer. No need to take his eyes off the patient. Duh!
RF.
Turns out surgeons are pretty smart (some of them at least) and tried exactly that. They surgeon and the nurse got irritated with each other and the surgeon ended up scrubbing out anyway.
YaThink_.
Hate to break it to them but gesture controlled computing has been around for more than 25 years. The significance of the Kinect is that's cheap - not that it's some sort of an intellectual quantum leap in input methods.
phreezerburn.
Exactly. Even M$'s own patents on the subject are more than a decade old.
Elmo Harris.
Careful when dealing with Microsoft. A good idea becomes theirs if they want it - with or without your approval.
phreezerburn.
M$ has been working with such since their first methodology patents on optical recognition of complex gestures and the translation thereof through software more than a decade ago.
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