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hey this is ross with the verge and we are here checking out soft kinetics the latest build of their new gesture control software the running a sensor not unlike the kinect what's special about this is actually does really accurate finger tracking up close about 15 centimeters and as far back as three feet works surprisingly well and they've got a few demos so they can kind of show us a kinda exemplify what's going on let's check it out alright so we go ahead and try to get this kind of tested i stick my hand out there we go at the Blue Monster recognizing me he seemed kind of dancing around a little bit let Mia articulate his mouth a little bit alright so i can either do the spock like the motion of my old hand squeezed into a fist another way we get to kind of hand mouth moving a bit kind of gave them dance around a bit now the arms are just jelly they just they just kind of going with the flow so don't really matter i can move a little for little back you know if i have my hand open palm i can go into face I'll have to write the other trick is I can actually get the second guy open let me open my hand to activate him wake him up here we go we got them and dancing around a little bit in out or get make it do it make sense alright better faster stronger okay so we're going to take a behind-the-scenes look this is kind of what the computer sees you got basically so you activate my hands here it's actually tracking each individual finger right there I so yeah it does go really close and even up there it kind of makes out you know all four of my fingers and thumb you can see kind of moving around both on the kind of heat map look and then kind of wears kind of tracking the skeletal system I go farther back and I can actually go kind of a ways before it's a little wonky even here it shows my fist kind of going in and out I can kind of draw a little bit of my finger and still tracks that and even that far away it works with both hands I can kind of bounce around here twist you can kind of see try to figure out basically where the proper pointing direction is it's perfectly fine swapping hands and placement orientation touching though completely scared this is something I'm assuming you know again it's an alpha build I've formed some kind of weird octo dodecahedron monster so that's new bills for their deaths since ds3 11 connect like sensor for gesture controls this alpha build is not available yet there is an SDK if you want to try it out but the new bill with the close up in the finger tracking that's coming out general availability later this year you