Control your raytraced characters with your kinect

NI (Natural Interaction) mate is a small but powerful software that takes real-time motion capture data from a Kinect or other supported device and turns it into two industry standard protocols: OSC (Open Sound Control) and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Available for both Windows and Mac OSX, NI mate offers users easy installation and a powerful, yet user-friendly configuration interface. Keeping to standard protocols for output makes NI mate an extremely flexible piece of software that can be applied in a vast number of scenarios.
Download free add-ons and templates for a number of 3D and DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software and instantly transform your Kinect into a powerful performance interface. If your favorite software is not yet supported, just make a request for it. Share your configurations, use cases and add-ons with others on the NI mate user forums (to be introduced in February 2012).

From the what is ni-mate page. Mostly: cool. Control your raytraced characters via for example Blender with your kinect from your mac or PC.