If you wouldn’t know any better this might look like some kind of sorcerer summoning a flying object. Another video of controlling the AR.Drone by making gestures in front of a Kinect. Development was done by Tom Zickel. I have not found any details yet about what tools he used.
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Controlling the AR.Drone with a Kinect controller
It was a matter of time before someone hooked the Kinect controller up to the AR.Drone. Apparently Lonergan Harrington has connected the Kinect controller with the OpenNI framework to the AR.Drone. You can see his experiments in the following video.