Kinect Links
Kinect Hacks
People are doing an amazing variety of things with the Kinect, especially given it’s only been out for a few months. Needless to say they show up the official Microsoft games offerings as distinctly lacking in imagination. Here are a few of my favorites:
Kinect robot
Minority report
Kinect piano
3d drawing
Kinect hand puppet
Puppet 2
Air guitar
Air Guitar prototype with Kinect from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.
Augmented reality
Transform into anime character
Physics
Kinect – 3D body tracking with physics from Tharsis-Software on Vimeo.
Physics2
DaVinci prototype on Xbox Kinect from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.
99 red balloons
99 Red Balloons from Andrew Lovett-Barron on Vimeo.
Merged realities
Embryonic multiplayer/telepresence
3d videochat with 2 Kinects
Object recognition
Kinect + projector
Kinect Hadouken from Elliot Woods on Vimeo.
Kinect + projector 2
Invisible
Invisibility from flight404 on Vimeo.
Fat Cat
Fat Cat from flight404 on Vimeo.
On Fire
Conflagration, alternate from flight404 on Vimeo.
Freaky Fingers
Getting Stuff Done. from flight404 on Vimeo.
Clones
Temporal echo from flight404 on Vimeo.
Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin NYE show excerpt from flight404 on Vimeo.
Techy Stuff
For the more technically-minded, this is the stuff I’ve been working with. I’ve been taking a two-pronged approach, in both cases ending up in Max/MSP/Jitter.
I’ve been using Jean-Marc Pelletier’s jit.freenect.grab object to get the 3d depth map (and rgb and now infrared images) into Max, and a whole bunch of libraries (the rest of the links below) to get the skeleton-tracking data out, and back into Max (in OSC). Sadly, at the moment I can’t do both at the same time..