Feb 18, 2011 7:08 PM

Showtime: Vivid Interactive

Moscow Interactive Shopwindow with gesture controls from VIVID Interactive on Vimeo.

*Another Kinect hack. It's via kinecthacks.net and/or kinecthacks.com, who are apparently not the same people.

*Should be near a window-shopping storefront near you pretty soon.

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