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

April 4th, 2011        

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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