Tuesday, November 29, 2011

3D Cold Fog Gesture Interface


"The company uses a stream of cold fog to project images onto it and an infrared camera to capture gestures. Unlike oversized body movements which Microsoft Kinect analyze and process using motion camera and infrared depth sensors, Displair solves a bigger challenge of detecting and interpreting finer movements of hands."

Link via Tech Crunch.





Saturday, August 06, 2011

Computer Vision: Sign Language - Dance

Just noticed an article on TechCrunch about the Kinetic Space Framework project. Check out the video they linked to below. According to the write up the software is able to detect subtle gestures down to the level of Sign Language. While the video below doesn't show this particular feature off -if it works on a practical level- then this opens the door to an intriguing level of human-computer interfaces. Now if I can only figure out how to get the information it generates out through OSC . . .

Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Kinect SDK has been released!

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/

Sunday, January 02, 2011

An Idiot With a Tripod



There is a little bit of buzz going on about this short film. It is a direct homage to Dziga Vertov's Man and a Movie Camera. It was shot with a Canon 7D by Jamie Stuart during a blizzard in New York on December 26th 2010. I say that there is some buzz about it because apparently Roger Ebert has suggested that it may be Oscar worthy.

I found this via Good.