Taking Apart the Microsoft Kinect… The Microsoft Kinect is the first consumer product that lets people control an interface using gesture and voice alone. An add-on for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video-game console, the sensor-packed device can determine your position and interpret vocal commands, all without requiring you to hold any special controllers or wear special […]
A classic pong game controlled via Kinect hand tracking. Created with openFrameworks and ofxKinect as a proof of concept for hand tracking. [Thanks, Michael!]
Kinect hacker Oliver Kreylos and pals are using a couple of Microsoft Kinect 3D game controllers and custom software to enable 3D holographic video chat. Their setup differs from traditional 3D video in that the participant is captured and mapped in real-time allowing others to view them from any angle in 3D. One fortuitous outcome of this experiment is the ability to clearly identify the line of sight of the other participant.
Or desk piano, for that matter. No actual keyboard required. Gotta say, choosing Thelonious Monk or whomever that is riffing away on the soundtrack is a bit disingenuous, as the virtual keyboards shown in the infrared footage don’t even have semitone keys. According to YouTuber petermmoz’s first comment, however, the software does actually include the “black” keys; they’ve just turned them off to make it easier for beginners to play. [via Boing Boing]
Chris O’Shea emailed in with his super sweet Kinect hack, allowing him to play air guitar! Written in c++ using openFrameworks and openCV for image processing. Using the ofxKinect addon and the libfreenect driver on Mac. Thank you to the openframeworks and openkinect communities for enabling this to happen. A big thank you to Microsoft […]
The indubitably cool (though possibly non-ergo) gesture interface seen in the movie Minority Report as well as amazing real-world projects like Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense are mirrored in his Kinect hand detection experiment by Garratt Gallagher of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Pretty sweet, and you don’t even need cool cyber-gloves!
I really like the work Robert Hodgin is doing with a Kinect and Cinder to map a texture onto the Kinect’s sensor output. Check out his Kinect pix on Flickr. (Click pix for big.)
