Sony’s Move.me Database Used To Create a Gesture-Enabled Linux Desktop

Posted 04/10/2011 at 9:59am | by Justin Kerr

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It seems like every other week we are checking out some new and bizarre Kinect hack, so the Sony Move is long overdue for exploitation. Earlier in the week a creative hobbyist by the name of Jacob Pennock made use of the newly released Move.me C library to build a gesture-controlled mouse driver for a Linux based PC. The early implementation shown in the video was naturally somewhat limited, but it worked well enough to make us wonder if this wouldn’t actually be a half decent HTPC remote.

The demo video Pennock uploaded to You Tube is of course very short on details, but it does show how gestures can be recorded, and then mapped to launch applications, or even specific media files. For example a quick “F” traced across the screen opens Facebook, and the all too familiar “X” kills it off again. It’s hard to imagine trading in a mouse for a Sony Move, but then again if this could be used to control XMBC on an home theater PC, it might actually be somewhat compelling.

Either way from what we hear I think Sony will just be glad if it helps them Move a few more Move’s. Alas, when you name a product after something so basic the jokes literally do write themselves.  Sorry about that!