The Kinect Accelerator has funded 11 startups based on MS Kinect and offered them mentoring and digs in Seattle. My favourite right now is http://www.freakngenius.com/
Lots of talent there.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Coding4Fun Kinect Service
Coding4Fun Kinect Service: "The Coding4Fun Kinect Service allows you to stream Kinect color, depth, skeleton, and audio from one PC to another PC or a Windows Phone via sockets. Both server and client libraries are available to send and receive the data. Please review the included WPF and Windows Phone samples for a quick explanation of how to use the libraries. Also check out the Documentation tab for more information and sample usage."
'via Blog this'
'via Blog this'
Friday, February 3, 2012
Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) « Rob Relyea
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Kinect for Windows – Code Migration from Beta2 to v1.0 (C#/VB) « Rob Relyea
Sunday, May 15, 2011
6 'New' Gaming Innovations That Are Way Older Than You Think | Cracked.com
The Pantomation predates the Kinect by, oh, about 34 YEARS. Unbelievable that while Pong was picking up speed at home you had a fully-functional motion tracking system available. Just goes to prove that society needs to catch up to ideas before they catch on.
128 sequential positions are captured! Chromakey analysis! Vector animation!
This is basically the same principle used by the Nintendo Wii or even the PlayStation Move -- only, you know, 30 years before. In other words, a few years after freaking color television became the norm, and someone invented a goddamn seventh-generation console. People were playing with this thing before they even knew what Space Invaders was.
6 'New' Gaming Innovations That Are Way Older Than You Think | Cracked.com
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Meta Perception: Human Interface
How about that? Kinect without the camera or image detection mechanism? And it's more responsive than the Kinect?
The `Smart Laser Projector' (SLP) is a modified laser-based projector capable of displaying graphics on a variety of non-prepared surfaces, while simultaneously using the beam (at the same or different wavelength or polarization) as a LIDAR probe gathering information about that surface position, orientation and shape, fine texture, spectral reflectance and even relative motion. It is therefore possible to synthesize an artificial surface reflectance, or to correct geometrical warp, all in real time and without the need of calibrating a camera and a projector. We have developed two prototypes, one working in raster-scan mode, and another in vector graphics mode. Our previous research on the Smart Laser Scanner, scoreLight and Sticky Light can be seen as special applications of the SLP in vector-graphics mode.
Meta Perception: Human Interface
Reminds me of that 80's TV show Automan and his sidekick Cursor. How much longer until I get my glowing Countach?
Microsoft demos face recognition in video - Next at Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
There are so many applications for this it is staggering, though the privacy issues are of a concern. Picture walking into a store, and getting your fingerprints inked for them to find out who you are and suggest personalized deals for you. Sounds intrusive, doesn’t it?
Face recognition takes it one step further. Picture walking down the street, or even driving under a red-light camera, and your face is recognized?
What if your face could be recognized in a crowd of thousands while playing back a video?
Kind of reminds me of the swearing technology in Demolition Man.
Microsoft demos face recognition in video - Next at Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Nordstrom applies Kinect to their windows - Next at Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Permission graffiti using Kinect. Please DO put your hands on the windows.
Nordstrom applies Kinect to their windows - Next at Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Physically climb over budget data with Kinect
Visualizing the US tax data by climbing up and over the bars. A unique way of interpreting and understanding the true enormity of data using Kinect.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Kinect-controlled Tesla Coil
Some of the best ideas come out of drinks at the pub.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/kinect-tesla-coils-the-fools-at-the-academy-laughed-at-you.html
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/kinect-tesla-coils-the-fools-at-the-academy-laughed-at-you.html
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Kinect for Flash/Air
Another implementation of Kinect functionality, this time for Flash/Air.
This project has taken the OpenNI and Prime Sense NITE frameworks and exposed them to Adobe Flash and the Adobe Flex framework through the use of socket servers. Now allowing Flash developers the ability to quickly build out Adobe Air applications that are controlled all by Natural Interaction, or in other words YOU!
http://code.google.com/p/as3openni/
This project has taken the OpenNI and Prime Sense NITE frameworks and exposed them to Adobe Flash and the Adobe Flex framework through the use of socket servers. Now allowing Flash developers the ability to quickly build out Adobe Air applications that are controlled all by Natural Interaction, or in other words YOU!
http://code.google.com/p/as3openni/
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Move the mouse with Kinect
Control your computer with Kinect… the low tech solution
Works with an iPad too...Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Kinect contest started by Johnny Chung Lee
Johnny Chung Lee got me interested in the topic of immersive devices when he demo'ed a Wiimote hacked with a PC being used to turn any surface into a large touchable interface. He joined MS for awhile, and helped bring us the Kinect. Apparently he also started the whole Kinect hacking craze.
I actually have a secret to share on this topic. Back in the late Summer of 2010, trying to argue for the most basic level of PC support for Kinect from within Microsoft, to my immense disappointment, turned out to be really grinding against the corporate grain at the time (for many reasons I won't enumerate here). When my frustration peaked, I decided to approach AdaFruit to put on the Open Kinect contest. For obvious reasons, I couldn't run the contest myself. Besides, Phil and Limor did a phenomenal job, much better than I could have done. Without a doubt, the contest had a significant impact in raising awareness about the potential for the Kinect outside of Xbox gaming both inside and outside the company. Best $3000 I ever spent.
This probably sold more devices and got more PR for Microsoft than any banner hung from the CN Tower.
And now they announced the legit drivers will be available directly from MS in the spring.
Hopefully they support the Kinect with another HD Webcam connected to the same PC.
I actually have a secret to share on this topic. Back in the late Summer of 2010, trying to argue for the most basic level of PC support for Kinect from within Microsoft, to my immense disappointment, turned out to be really grinding against the corporate grain at the time (for many reasons I won't enumerate here). When my frustration peaked, I decided to approach AdaFruit to put on the Open Kinect contest. For obvious reasons, I couldn't run the contest myself. Besides, Phil and Limor did a phenomenal job, much better than I could have done. Without a doubt, the contest had a significant impact in raising awareness about the potential for the Kinect outside of Xbox gaming both inside and outside the company. Best $3000 I ever spent.
This probably sold more devices and got more PR for Microsoft than any banner hung from the CN Tower.
And now they announced the legit drivers will be available directly from MS in the spring.
Hopefully they support the Kinect with another HD Webcam connected to the same PC.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=1293#more-1293
Boffswana is at the cutting edge of Augmented Reality applications with some large Fortune 500 clients (or at least their ad agencies).
In this clip they muck around the office tracking and displaying a Blob avatar with Kinect and Unity 3D.
http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=1293#more-1293
For those that guess the above blob link will be something to do with a binary large object, you're wrong and geeky like me.
In my last article, Why SQL Server is a 4-letter word, I discussed acronyms. The term blob is a bacronym. This is an acronym that was constructed after-the-fact to cover up that it really was named after "The Blob that ate Cincinnati." The person who first applied the name Blob to a database object was Jim Starkey. He tells a hilarious Dilbert-ish story about the origins of the term here, and how marketers like acronyms.
In this clip they muck around the office tracking and displaying a Blob avatar with Kinect and Unity 3D.
http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=1293#more-1293
For those that guess the above blob link will be something to do with a binary large object, you're wrong and geeky like me.
In my last article, Why SQL Server is a 4-letter word, I discussed acronyms. The term blob is a bacronym. This is an acronym that was constructed after-the-fact to cover up that it really was named after "The Blob that ate Cincinnati." The person who first applied the name Blob to a database object was Jim Starkey. He tells a hilarious Dilbert-ish story about the origins of the term here, and how marketers like acronyms.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Quake 3 Motion Sensor pre-Kinect
Innovation knows no boundaries. And this one doesn't even need calibration.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
wow. This is true Augmented Reality
He just won himself $3000 by drawing x's and o's.
Robotics engineer Garratt Gallagher uses the Kinect to create a virtual soundboard using a method out of a cartoon universe: he draws a circle on a piece of paper, and when he presses the virtual "button" computers make a sound.
As Gallagher says on his blog: "Magic right? this is what happens in cartoons – you draw an eject button, then you hit it and you eject. This can work in real life?!?"
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=82388#ixzz1DWOYg6MU
Things are just starting to get interesting... I drew this picture and it magically appeared on my blog.
Band Video in Kinectvision
Point Clouds are cool. whoa. uh. heh. heh.
http://www.vimeo.com/19356569
The Echo Lake 12" 'Young Silence' is released on No Pain in Pop on February 14th 2011.
nopaininpop.greedbag.com
echolakeband.com
This video was shot on the Microsoft Kinect by me and Dom Jones on December 14th 2010. I then spent the next seven weeks (mostly after work) making it look like that ^
The video was captured and processed using custom applications developed in Cinder. The software was based on the work that Flight 404 did with his early Kinect libraries.
http://www.vimeo.com/19356569
The Echo Lake 12" 'Young Silence' is released on No Pain in Pop on February 14th 2011.
nopaininpop.greedbag.com
echolakeband.com
This video was shot on the Microsoft Kinect by me and Dom Jones on December 14th 2010. I then spent the next seven weeks (mostly after work) making it look like that ^
The video was captured and processed using custom applications developed in Cinder. The software was based on the work that Flight 404 did with his early Kinect libraries.
Friday, February 4, 2011
HTML5 and jQuery - how to record audio
jQuery is a javascript library that makes programming javascript fun. Did I say that out loud? I hate javascript.
jQuery can't record your voice though.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1333861/how-to-record-user-voice-with-jquery
+1 for "jQuery is good, but it's not that good!" – Robin Day Aug 26 '09 at 11:08
@Robin, I heard jQuery will solve the global financial crisis too ;) – Ash Aug 26 '09 at 11:24
@Ash I think thats a job for Prototype not jQuery :-) – AutomatedTester Aug 26 '09 at 11:55
Using jQuery in your web apps is pretty simple. You can also increase your performance by using the hosted Google version of the library.
http://encosia.com/2008/12/10/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-google-host-jquery-for-you/
http://encosia.com/2010/09/15/6953-reasons-why-i-still-let-google-host-jquery-for-me/
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2010/01/21/using-cdn-hosted-jquery-with-a-local-fall-back-copy.aspx
Microsoft provides a similar service for its Ajax library. I don't like Ajax much either.
http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx
Cloud computing anyone? Is MS the trend leader or Google? Since I'm a PC with a SQL background, I was able to understand the answer below.
Analysis
By casting a wide net with the regex and logging any script reference that contained the word “jQuery”, I was able to construct ad-hoc queries to answer a variety of questions. For example, how many top 200,000 sites use the Google CDN to host jQuery UI for them?
SELECT count(*)
FROM Results
WHERE Reference LIKE '%googleapis%jquery-ui.min.js'
Answer: 989
Want to know how many top 1,000 sites use the Microsoft CDN for any jQuery-related script?
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Results
WHERE Reference LIKE '%ajax.microsoft%jquery%'
AND Rank <= 1000
Answer: 1 (Microsoft.com)
So is Microsoft piggy-backing on other people's technology ideas? Naaaaa. :)
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm
Did Apple steal the mouse? Naaaa...
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt
Did Sony turn down the Kinect? Naaa...
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-27-sony-why-we-turned-down-kinect-interview
Apparently cost was a factor for Sony so they stopped "researching" it.
Ouch.
“We are enthusiastic about the consumer response to our holiday lineup of products, including the launch of Kinect. The 8 million units of Kinect sensors sold in just 60 days far exceeded our expectations,” said Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY11/Q2/default.aspx
jQuery can't record your voice, but it can talk.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3853254/how-to-hear-the-audio-of-a-text-to-speech-translation
Windows 7 can record your voice, and even has a handsfree mode built in.
http://clubhouse.microsoft.com/public/post/cda7347a-9f83-41da-8fcc-8562c0fa45e7
Some interesting Kinect hacks are going to come out of this...
jQuery can't record your voice though.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1333861/how-to-record-user-voice-with-jquery
+1 for "jQuery is good, but it's not that good!" – Robin Day Aug 26 '09 at 11:08
@Robin, I heard jQuery will solve the global financial crisis too ;) – Ash Aug 26 '09 at 11:24
@Ash I think thats a job for Prototype not jQuery :-) – AutomatedTester Aug 26 '09 at 11:55
Using jQuery in your web apps is pretty simple. You can also increase your performance by using the hosted Google version of the library.
http://encosia.com/2008/12/10/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-google-host-jquery-for-you/
http://encosia.com/2010/09/15/6953-reasons-why-i-still-let-google-host-jquery-for-me/
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2010/01/21/using-cdn-hosted-jquery-with-a-local-fall-back-copy.aspx
Microsoft provides a similar service for its Ajax library. I don't like Ajax much either.
http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx
Cloud computing anyone? Is MS the trend leader or Google? Since I'm a PC with a SQL background, I was able to understand the answer below.
Analysis
By casting a wide net with the regex and logging any script reference that contained the word “jQuery”, I was able to construct ad-hoc queries to answer a variety of questions. For example, how many top 200,000 sites use the Google CDN to host jQuery UI for them?
SELECT count(*)
FROM Results
WHERE Reference LIKE '%googleapis%jquery-ui.min.js'
Answer: 989
Want to know how many top 1,000 sites use the Microsoft CDN for any jQuery-related script?
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM Results
WHERE Reference LIKE '%ajax.microsoft%jquery%'
AND Rank <= 1000
Answer: 1 (Microsoft.com)
So is Microsoft piggy-backing on other people's technology ideas? Naaaaa. :)
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa033099.htm
Did Apple steal the mouse? Naaaa...
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt
Did Sony turn down the Kinect? Naaa...
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-27-sony-why-we-turned-down-kinect-interview
Apparently cost was a factor for Sony so they stopped "researching" it.
Ouch.
“We are enthusiastic about the consumer response to our holiday lineup of products, including the launch of Kinect. The 8 million units of Kinect sensors sold in just 60 days far exceeded our expectations,” said Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY11/Q2/default.aspx
jQuery can't record your voice, but it can talk.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3853254/how-to-hear-the-audio-of-a-text-to-speech-translation
Windows 7 can record your voice, and even has a handsfree mode built in.
http://clubhouse.microsoft.com/public/post/cda7347a-9f83-41da-8fcc-8562c0fa45e7
Some interesting Kinect hacks are going to come out of this...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
There's a new Sheriff in town
and it's a puppet.
The Gunstringer is a Kinect game where you get to marionette a kick-ass undead cowboy puppet through action packed stage performances.
http://www.thegunstringer.com/
The Gunstringer is unlike any Kinect game you may have played previously. There are no minigames, forced gestures, or end of level photos of you in your underwear here. You can play it sitting down, which is great if you just want to play and relax rather than burn crazy calories. Most importantly, you can aim and move with precision not seen in any of the Kinect launch titles, and with a speed and feel that’s just not possible with a traditional controller.
That should be a good game to offset the 27 calories I burned yesterday playing Fitness Evolved.
The Gunstringer is a Kinect game where you get to marionette a kick-ass undead cowboy puppet through action packed stage performances.
http://www.thegunstringer.com/
The Gunstringer is unlike any Kinect game you may have played previously. There are no minigames, forced gestures, or end of level photos of you in your underwear here. You can play it sitting down, which is great if you just want to play and relax rather than burn crazy calories. Most importantly, you can aim and move with precision not seen in any of the Kinect launch titles, and with a speed and feel that’s just not possible with a traditional controller.
That should be a good game to offset the 27 calories I burned yesterday playing Fitness Evolved.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Johnny Chung Lee leaves MS, joins Google
Johnny started the whole wii-mote hacking craze with his wii-mote whiteboard, and has spent the last couple years working on Kinect at Microsoft.
It was a wild ride, helping Kinect along through the very early days of incubation (even before it was called "Project Natal") all the way to shipping 8 million units in the first 60 days. It's not often you work on a project that gets a lavish product announcement by Cirque du Soleil and a big Times Square Launch party. The success of Kinect is a result of fantastic work by a lot of people. I'm also very happy that so many other people share my excitement about the technology.
http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/
It was a wild ride, helping Kinect along through the very early days of incubation (even before it was called "Project Natal") all the way to shipping 8 million units in the first 60 days. It's not often you work on a project that gets a lavish product announcement by Cirque du Soleil and a big Times Square Launch party. The success of Kinect is a result of fantastic work by a lot of people. I'm also very happy that so many other people share my excitement about the technology.
http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/
Xbox: Project Natal Blog
Developer of GlovePIE has a blog with lots of trailers for Xbox Kinect games.
This is the kind of interface I’ve long daydreamed about. And I hope game developers and players will understand its potential when it is so unlike what we’ve seen before.
So read or subscribe to my Project Natal blog at http://XboxProjectNatalBlog.com to keep up with all the latest and not-so-latest news about Microsoft’s revolutionary (aka wiiy) new controller which you will be able to buy this year. And if you haven’t heard about and don’t know what Project Natal is yet, then I highly recommend you look at the intro video on my blog, and prepare to be astounded.
This is the kind of interface I’ve long daydreamed about. And I hope game developers and players will understand its potential when it is so unlike what we’ve seen before.
So read or subscribe to my Project Natal blog at http://XboxProjectNatalBlog.com to keep up with all the latest and not-so-latest news about Microsoft’s revolutionary (aka wiiy) new controller which you will be able to buy this year. And if you haven’t heard about and don’t know what Project Natal is yet, then I highly recommend you look at the intro video on my blog, and prepare to be astounded.
Monday, January 31, 2011
CodeLabs CL NUI Driver
The CL NIU driver adds compatibility for Kinect Audio and some additional samples. It can be installed by updating existing drivers.
http://codelaboratories.com/niu
http://codelaboratories.com/niu
Round 1 - installing the drivers
Installed cygwin to setup GIT (source control tool)
Run at a command prompt:
C:\> git clone sourceurl.GIT
Pasting in the urls for the various Kinect unstable releases. (OpenNI, Nite, etc.)
Install the binaries in order of last couple blog posts.
Copy the xml files to the proper samples directories.
Result:
Run at a command prompt:
C:\> git clone sourceurl.GIT
Pasting in the urls for the various Kinect unstable releases. (OpenNI, Nite, etc.)
Install the binaries in order of last couple blog posts.
Copy the xml files to the proper samples directories.
Result:
Hand-held Kinect camera
RGBD-6D-SLAM
Description: The Kinect is used to generate a colored 3D model of an object or a complete room.I just need to find a glove that fits the Kinect.
DIY motion capture system
From the developers at http://www.sensebloom.com/ comes OSCeleton, a DIY motion capture system without all those klunky stick-on sensors.
Announcing the winners of the Kinect contest
Google engineer gives out $7000 in prizes for the top Kinect-hacking apps.
How-to: Successfully install Kinect on Windows
Getting started with my new Kinect and the PC.
Some observations about the interfaces of the XBox games I've tried so far:
1. Slight delay when viewing the white "ghost" on the screen and with gestures.
2. Some buttons use a "mouse over and wait" timer to activate rather than a hand grab.
3. Multi-gesture movements using hands and feet are common.
4. Holding arm positions for a couple seconds signify things such as options menus.
Looking to translate this to an effective gesture and multi-touch interface for the PC, rather than just mapping keystrokes.
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