As reported by Kotaku through techamok, a group at MIT coded up some hand detection software capable of distinguishing your hand and fingers within a cloud of 60,000 points and at a rate of 30 FPS. Add in a simple but sweet graphical user interface, the open source robotics package 'ROS, and the libfreenect driver that lets the Kinect interface with Linux and you have the groundwork for a real-life Minority Report interface.
