Speaking at the Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany, Kinect creative director Kudo Tsunoda suggested to Pocket-lint that a marriage between phones and mo-cap was certainly possible, stating that “it’s all stuff that you could work into phones as well if you wanted to […] if like you worked at a company that did stuff with phones and PCs then maybe something like that would be possible.”
Windows Phone 7 documentation
Obviously Microsoft is such a company, and although Tsunoda refused to reveal any specific plans that Redmond might have, we know from early Windows Phone 7 leaked documentation that camera gestures were initially included as a primary input method. Slides from those documents seem to depict illustrated users triggering unknown phone functions by simply waving a two-dimensional hand in front of the camera (see below, thanks Engadget).
Kinect hardware requirements
To mimic Kinect‘s functionality stereoscopic cameras are required, and these are not included in any existing phones. Still, Tsunoda is convinced that “it’s so much easier naturally using your voice or using gestures.” Would you be interested in having Kinect on your mobile phone?
