• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, April 4, 2011

Marketers who read the Search Marketing Daily Blog know I listed Gmail Motion as an Google April Fool's Day prank. Apparently, Google might not get the last laugh.

Evan Suma and the folks at USC ICT's MxR Lab put together a demonstration on making Gmail Motion work by using the Fkexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST) and a Microsoft Kinet sensor. Kinet, an add on to Xbox 360 entertainment console, allows people to use body motion rather than hand controllers to control applications.