Augmented multitouch with Microsoft Kinect

I am glad to present something I worked on at my current workplace Tandemic. Much thanks for giving me the possibility!

Get some impressions in these videos:

The awesome video by Lena:

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Using ginn for adding multitouch gestures to ubuntu (for Acer 1825)

In my last post I explained were you found a tutorial for installing a real multitouch driver for the ACER 1825 and said I don’t know how to use these multitouch support. Thanks to Tom/drnessie who recommended ginn to me.

Ginn is a daemon which recognizes multitouch gestures with the ubuntu utouch interface and translates them to global or application specific shortcuts. read more