Gmail Motion April Fool gag turned into the real deal thanks to Kinect

Oh, we saw this coming. You knew it too don’t you. I mean, it had to happen, for the lulz or whatever it is. We’ve seen aplenty Kinect hacks doing amazing stuff, and that Google shows off their ‘prank’ with a Kinect, that just sparked a ‘Challenge Accepted’ furry among the open source developers.
Yep, the FAAST crew that’s already brought us a Kinect keyboard emulator for World of Warcraft has taken Google to task and actually cooked up the software to make Gmail Motion work. All your favorite gestures are here: opening an email as if it were an envelope, replying by throwing a thumb back and, of course, “licking the stamp” to send your response on its way.
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