Kinect has a competitor. Leap Motion is putting out a 3d motion sensing technology and has gotten a deal to sell it as part of the Asus PCs both desktop and laptop version. Yes I got blindsided but here it is. http://news.cnet.com/8300-5_3-0.html?keyword=leap+motion http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57561922/leap-motions-3d-motion-sensing-tech-coming-to-asus-pcs/ Leap Motion I’ve applied for the developer program. And I’ll be ordering [...]
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http://spacepalette.com/ This is an interesting use of the Kinect and was used at Burning Man. It was actually converted, prettified and demonstrated/used at Burning Man this year. I’m downloading the sourcecode now. Curiosity did not kill this cat… the use of the “frames” is pretty inspiring. Distrubtion Files
I got wrapped up in another project but I’m back. Today I started reading some additional books and doing some research into skeleton recognition with the Kinect. Here’s a short list: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/BodyPartRecognition.pdf The original research done by the Mirosoft Research Team at Cambridge. From the University of Washington in St. Louis, 2 students doing [...]
This is my first test. The code is from the alpha version of the book Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK. The book started off with some background on Kinect so I wasn’t quite expecting to actually do something right off the bat but here it is… It doesn’t look like much but [...]
When I first saw the Bunny video, I wasn’t exactly sure what these guys were doing but it became quite clear when I watched their first tutorial on using NI Mate. They’ve built a plugin for Blender which is a 3d content creation suite. The plugin allows them to map objects & cameras to their [...]
When I got my Kinect for Windows, I spent a whole night working to get it connected. It took a bit. I started out plugging it into one of the ports on the back of my computer. Without reading all the extra information, I had the Windows Kinect SDK already installed so I figured I [...]
The more I explore the world of Kinect’s potential uses, the more my jaw drops. I knew a year ago that this was going to be incredible stuff. However, I had individuals in gaming and family members blowing the idea that it was going to do anything. There’s been a lot of hacking and experimentation [...]
Yesterday I hit the “Place Your Order” button on Amazon. I got an email from Amazon and on Feb 14 my Kinect for Windows will arrive at my doorstep. Hopefully February 14th will mean this is a long term relationship with this technology. I have a lot to learn about it. I bought one of [...]