The OpenKinect windfall keeps rolling in. The folks over at Willow Garage look like they’ve been having a blast developing an improvised teleoperation system and generally riffing on all the wonderful possibilities inspired by the Microsoft Kinect controller and OpenKinect driver.
Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson’s Kinect-driven puppet show: A quick installation prototype Emily and I hooked up with the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect. The system is doing skeleton tracking on the arm and determining where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is, using it to control the movement and posture of the giant funky bird!
It’s been a week and already people are doing cool things with the Kinect. We have to hand it to MS, they created a genuinely awesome device, and one that is apparently a breeze to hack! Kudos for Adafruit for making it happen. Someone (ahem) needs to offer more of these prizes! [Video via Beyond […]
Mehmet “Memo” Akten‘s experiment shows the possibilities of the newly hacked gadget. The XBox Kinect is connected to my Macbook Pro, and I wrote a little demo to analyse the depth map for gestural 3D interaction. One hand to draw in 3D, two hands to rotate the view. Very rough, early prototype. [Kinect hacks, via […]
