Android Kinect Projector Interface 45
An anonymous reader writes "A guy who goes by the online handle DDRBoxman decided it would be fun to blow up his Samsung Galaxy Nexus display onto the wall by connecting his phone to a projector. He then connected the whole thing to a PC and, thanks to Microsoft's open-source Kinect platform for Windows, he was able to create a custom ROM that mapped out the phone interface to the Kinect sensors. Pretty neat!"
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My brother, sister-in-law, and 2 nephews are each on their 4th iPhone. That's 12 iPhones sitting in a drawer.
His statement has resonates true to me... just saying...
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My brother, sister-in-law, and 2 nephews are each on their 4th iPhone. That's 12 iPhones sitting in a drawer.
His statement has resonates true to me... just saying...
Anecdote != data.
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anecdote *IS* data. it may not be statistically valid and/or high quality. Or it may be.
between my wife and i, we have 6 iPhones in a drawer along with 4 iPods. my iPad will likely join them within the year. I also have a dev nexus one in that drawer, along with a few nokia's and moto's (razrs).
my current phone is Nexus S running droid 4. hers is an iPhone 4
tech gets old and there are new things you want to do.
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Anecdote == illustration of a point
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Anecdote == illustration of a point
However, drawing conclusions from an anecdote is the logical fallacy of hasty generalization, which was my original point.
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I'm not arguing with you, just adding to it.
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> "Pure sales are how you define marketshare, there isn't any other way to do it."
I get that you're an AC troll, but you're also an idiot.
> "It's the business model of the carriers to sell a new phone every year."
Which is why they offer upgrades every 2 years, right?
> "As a result, Android users are far more likely to repeatedly upgrade their phone."
Wrong. While the Android update situation is dismal, most Android users don't have to upgrade because their phone is already doing what they want it t
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Yet it still lacks 4G or a MicroSD slot.
and a user-replaceable battery....
and a capability to run apps that aren't approved by apple (caveat is that a developer can create an app that is installable on 100 devices without going through the app store...for $99 a year, or for a greater cost with an enterprise license - unlimited devices - I suppose that means buying approval for $99 or more)
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The links GP provides don't really support GP's proposition (certainly I was surprised at his claims since they differed from the other reports I'd seen). For one thing, this talks ONLY about Q4 sales, not market share per GP's claim. Of course sales is a leader of market share, and if you can be dominant in sales, market share follows eventually. However, owning one quarter's worth of dominance can't exactly be called a pattern, particularly when there's a demonstrated strong pattern of customers holdin
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Not that I think the original post has any merit (Android vs iOS marketshare is hardly a major issue when they move 1 or 2% each way due to noise in the data), but your assertion seems to be that now that the marketshare data says that *Apple* is ahead, that it's due to "frequent upgrades" and "old iPhones sitting in drawers".
Yet, when things like the "Buy One Get One Free" deal on Android handsets from Verizon are mentioned as reasons that Android's numbers were up during that particular quarter are not va
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The one in which Eric Schmidt specifically said that Android would win because of dominant marketshare whether "you like it or not."
Slashdotters when Android had more marketshare at the start of 2011: "Android is taking over the world, yeehaw! Marketshare, marketshare, marketshare! Suck it, crApple!"
Slashdotters when the lead is reversed by the end of 2011: "You don't need marketshare to be successful. Here are some tired anti-Apple phrases like 'walled garden' and 'iPlatform'. I willingly accept crappy hardware and software in order to feel special and unique!"
I know I am feeding the trolls but what Schmidt said had nothing to do with marketshare at all, his remark was this: "there are literally so many manufacturers who are working so hard to distribute Android phones globally, that whether you like ICS or not, and again I like it a great deal, you will want to develop for that platform"... Gee, someone wanting to make a platform that people want to develop apps for... How dare he!
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Actually, Eric Schmidt was referring to the question on why on Android, apps are p
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He's right that at least 4 of those accounts are the same guy, though he missed NorthKorea somehow. This is the guy who rambled about travelling around Asia, fucking she-males and eventually catching some disease that had him bedridden for 6 months. He likes the word "frankly", and the phrase "you can't deny". He defends North Korea quite a lot. He has said on a couple of his accounts that he works in marketing. He claims that Visual Studio is the best thing ever. He likes to slander Google and praise MS. I
Why didnt you link to the guys page (Score:5, Informative)
instead of giving some shitty repost site more ad traffic?
http://blog.recursivepenguin.com/?p=70 [recursivepenguin.com]
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Oh man, you probably just killed that poor guy's site.
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Astroturf More (Score:5, Informative)
This was done using https://code.google.com/p/simple-kinect-touch/ [google.com] not the microsoft SDK.
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If I had this I would... (Score:1)
PLAY ANGRY BIRDS ALL DAY!!!!
Whiteboard everywhere (Score:3)
This might be great for some type of whiteboard app.
If I need a whiteboard at work, I just plug in my phone to a projector and scribble w/e I want down. If I have a meeting later in the day I can just plug my phone into the projector in the conference room and can have my co workers instantly collaborate on my earlier notes. If I get home and feel like looking over or adding to my work notes, I can easily do so.
Of course the downfall to this whole idea is the fact that each location would need an available kinect and projector. I wonder how long until we can cram similar technologies into a phone though.
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If it performs anything like the video shows, I'll pass. Reminds me of working on my old G1 when I was near max capacity on the system partition (wasn't rooted; couldn't move apps to SD card; ran like SHIT).
Don't get me wrong... I'm sure it was a fun tech demo. It's just awful in many respects.
IMO, what would be far cooler would be to:
* connect phone to projector (either a better one so it's usable with lights on and on a 120" screen, or a portable laser or LCD one)
* turn the camera on the phone into an IR
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Why wait and cram?
A little bit of duct tape and you can have a Phone + projector + Kinect!
It might not fit in your pocket though....
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"Of course the downfall to this whole idea is the fact that each location would need an available kinect and projector."
At which point you might as well just have bought an interactive whiteboard instead.
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The sentence should have stopped there.
Awesome (Score:2)