{"id":18060,"date":"2011-04-02T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:03:11","slug":"gmail-motion-control-gmail-with-body-actions-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2011\/04\/gmail-motion-control-gmail-with-body-actions-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail Motion: Control Gmail with Body Actions [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched Gmail Motion which lets you control Gmail with your body actions. Gmail Motion uses your computer&#8217;s webcam and Google&#8217;s patented spatial tracking technology to detect your movements and use them as Gmail commands.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video about Gmail Motion.<br \/>\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"311\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bu927_ul_X0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bu927_ul_X0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Actually Gmail Motion doesn&#8217;t actually exist. This is Gmail&#8217;s April Fools prank this year! Happy April Fools day to you. What pranks did you play?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Some people actually made this work for real. Using Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving (SLOOW), see how it can be used with a Microsoft Kinect sensor to control Gmail using the gestures described by Google. See more Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (<a href=\"http:\/\/projects.ict.usc.edu\/mxr\/faast\/\" rel=\"noopener\">FAAST<\/a>) capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lfso7_i9Ko8?hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched Gmail Motion which lets you control Gmail with your body actions. Gmail Motion uses your computer&#8217;s webcam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-18060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}