GeekNight 11 Video : The Infinite Possibilities of Kinect

Last week wasn’t only TechNet_Live week, but on Thursday it was time for the yearly GeekNight! During this evening you can attend some really geeky presentations. The demo-part of one of the most geeky presentations of the evening was for sure the one of Sander Berkouwer and Marien de Gelder (of the Dutch company OGD).

Together they have written a cool application with which they can control Windows Server 2008 R2. In the short video (around 8 minutes) they show us how you can reboot a server (they don’t use keyboard and mouse!), Raise the AD level and Live Migrate some Virtual Machines from one Hyper-V host to another. For all the previous actions they won’t use keyboard or mouse (like every fat ass lazy SysAdmin would do :-) ), but instead they use Kinect. You know..Kinect…the new way of controlling your XBOX 360!

 

Sander Berkouwer and Marien de Gelder with some cool Kinect demo’s

The video above is show by me, so please forgive me for the ‘crappy’ quality. The session was recorded by Microsoft, but that session is not live yet.

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About Helmer

Helmer currently works as a Technical Consultant at Inter Access in Hilversum, the Netherlands. His areas of expertise are : Windows Client, Microsoft Deployment (WDS, MDT & SCCM) and Forefront Security. Besides his own blog he also blogs at the Dutch Microsoft IT Pro Community blog. He is also very interested in all sorts of new IT-related gadgets.