David Terranova Kinect for Windows SDK Quickstarts 8 minutes, 56 seconds 6 minutes, 50 seconds 12 minutes, 16 seconds 15 minutes, 36 seconds 16 minutes, 57 seconds 11 minutes, 48 seconds Top 10 Best Kinect Hacks Thanks to ever-growing Kinect Community, there are a lot of great Kinect programs/hacks out there and more come each day. The artists, developers and technology enthusiast who belong to the Kinect Community have presented and share their Kinect programs not only within the community, but also to the rest of the world. In honor of the community as well as the Kinect device, Kinecthacks.com has currently compiled its TOP 10 BEST KINECT HACKS. The team has gone through a lot of content it has featured in order to create this list of the best and most brilliant Kinect programs. Without further ado, the Top 10 Best Kinect Hacks of Kinecthacks.com (Updated September 10, 2011) 10. The concept of a virtual fitting room has reached a new pinnacle of success! 9. Play games, browse the internet and get necessary information through our wall! 8. Award winning visual effects designer, John Gaeta, is on-board the Kinect development train! 7. Want to train your lightsaber skills to be a Jedi? 6. 5. 4.
New TouchDesigner Goes Gold, with Free Sharing, Ableton Live Sync, More From top: TouchDesigner powering the Plastikman show, Steve Mason’s Chapichapo. If you’ve been watching big-league visuals lately, things that made your eyeballs roll out into the crowd, odds are TouchDesigner might have been some of the software in use. The tool, established in years of use but perhaps little known outside a few select circles, has been making waves lately in some very nice shows. Even its interface is dazzling (and, indeed, figures directly in shows by the likes of Berlin label Raster Noton), flying through endlessly-zoomable graphical patching interfaces. One obstacle has stood in TouchDesigner’s way: accessibility. That Hollywood-sexy interface might leave average musicians and visualists wondering how this would work for them. The uninterestingly-named TouchDesigner 077 Gold represents lots of iterative progress on this tool. As new to this edition is an integrated mapping tool, for three-dimensional projection mapping. Here’s what’s new.
Kinect SDK for Windows – demos - If broken it is, fix it you should Lately I have been working quite a bit with the Kinect SDK for Windows, which you can install and use on your computer from our research department Geting started The only thing you need to get started is a computer running Windows, a Kinect device (must be the one with a power chord, but you can buy the power chord separately very cheep at most stores where they sell Kinect), and the Kinect SDK. Once you have everything installed I suggest you go to Channel9 and watch the QuickStarts to familiarize yourself with the basics and finally move over to the Channel9 Kinect blog to get inspiration and look at all the cool projects people are making. This series In this series I will post a number of different controls, extensions and demo apps that I have created. 1. Enjoy, Tess
New Readers Start Here! « The Muse Garden Do you want to learn more about algorithms, programming, mathematics, or self improvement? If you’re interested in any of these areas, you’ve come to the right place. Below you will find several categories with some of my most popular posts that you may be interested in if you’re looking for a specific thing or just want to get a feel for what I write about. I also take requests for new posts, and you can contact me at anytime on twitter by using the screen name @musegarden. After you read this page, drop by and say hi, or leave me a comment here. I look forward to hearing from you! Kinect Face Tracking — Senior Thesis 2013 I wrote a thesis for my BS Computer Science degree called “Facial Expression Analysis With Microsoft Kinect”. If you want to know more, you can find my code at: and the Microsoft API page for the Kinect Face Tracking Library is here: Algorithms and Intractable Problems
GLGraphics Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit 9 Incredible Developments for Kinect in Education For those of us raised in typical school settings, the memory of straight-row desks with little activity is all too familiar. As we’re all aware, the Kinect has the potential to evolve classrooms beyond this 18th century model of learning to a structure that’s aligned with brain research and the benefits of active learning. With the release of the noncommercial Kinect SDK, several new Kinect applications are emerging. Here are nine key developments that reveal the educational value of Kinect in education. Do you have an app you’d like to submit for download or link to? 1. This is a development by Tom Smurthwaite. [Arkaos is] a little experiment into using the Kinect with individuals with special needs. ArKaos is an application for live visual performance, conceived as a visual sampler for video loops that can be triggered from the computer, or through a hardware interface. Direct Video Link Kinect and FAAST Controlling Arkaos 2. Direct Video Link Synapse for Kinect 3. Direct Video Link 4.
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