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Realtime Augmented Reality met Kinect & iPad

Dit is echt een mooi voorbeeld van realtime augmented reality in combinatie van de Kinect & de iPad. Met behulp van de String Augmented Reality SDK wordt er real-time een 3d video&audio opname via de Kinect getoond. Meer info op Laan Labs.

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Playing Portal 2 on a hacked Kinect with your arm

How would Valve's Portal 2 play if it was controlled with motion gestures on Kinect? It'd look a lot like this Kinect hack created by Brad Cooley.

Running off the FAAST toolkit that has helped make many unofficial Kinect hacks possible, Cooley was able to get a Kinect sensor to track his skeletal body and map the infamous Portal gun to his arm. Like most Kinect hacks, the workaround solution is a little laggy and doesn't run at full speed. Had Valve officially made it, I'm sure the geniuses over there could get the full game running properly. Still, it's a good proof-of-concept using Kinect in a game that's more hardcore than just Kinectimals or Dance Central.

Check out Cooley's nifty Kinect hack below and if you want to learn how to reproduce the hack yourself, you can find his email over in the YouTube video's description.

YouTube, via RipTen

Source: vividgamer.com

Gmail besturen met Kinect

Google presenteerde begin April 2011 hun Gmail Motion. Met behulp van gebaren en bewegingen kun je Gmail besturen. In bovenstaande video kun je zien dat je met behulp van de Kinect dit eenvoudig zelf kunt doen met de FAAST software library.

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DIY Home Automation using the Kinect

We’ve seen plenty of superb Kinect hacks in the past, and this home automation project is paving the way forward for more. The hack uses a Kinect to determine a user’s location within a room and control the lighting accordingly. For example, if the user sits down on a couch to watch TV, the lights dim. Since lighting can be achieved using basic motion sensors, we’ll likely see other home automation Kinect projects which incorporate more advanced gesture recognitions.

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