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Re: Video: Driving Miss Daisy...with a Kinect

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Originally Posted by BrendanB View Post
Very cool!

How is it practically? Lag time, user error, multiple people/interference, etc?
You can get a sense of lag time from the video (both best case and worst case - Netbeans was just finishing opening up on the netbook as we began this trial and was hogging some CPU cycles; by the middle of the video you will notice latency was in the half a second range).

User error was a bit of a factor. The "stop it right now!" command is basically folding your arms, but you'll notice me reminding the student at one point not to simply drop her arms to her side - that is full reverse! With a few minutes of practice it becomes more natural.

We plan on doing some stress testing over coming weeks to examine the "multiple people/interference" issue, as well as to see if we can further reduce the lag with a more powerful computer.