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Ford and General Motors Uses Kinect Sensor for Interactive Digital Display, and Joyride Game Respectively |
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At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Ford, among many car companies are revealing and showing off their next generation vehicles. Amidst all the hot rods, the Kinect makes a somewhat undercover appearance at the Ford booth as part of an interactive display installation.

Although Ford didn't use the Kinect to its full potential -- it's only function appears to be to take a photo where the rest of the interaction is still touch-based, the reason they used a Kinect instead of a normal webcam seems to be because the photo they take of a person has the background substituted for a waterfall -- easily possible with Kinect's depth sensors and people-identifying algorithms. The picture is then turned into a puzzle for users to solve.
What's interesting is that this might be one of the first examples of Kinect used outside of its official gaming functionality in a public manner.

General Motors, is also at the show with a Kinect and the Joyride game which features the Chevrolet Volt. |
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