Nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf. Doc-Ok.org. I just read an interesting article, a behind-the-scenes look at the infamous “Milo” demo Peter Molyneux did at 2009′s E3 to introduce Project Natal, i.e., Kinect.
This article is related to VR in two ways. First, the usual progression of overhyping the capabilities of some new technology and then falling flat on one’s face because not even one’s own developers know what the new technology’s capabilities actually are is something that should be very familiar to anyone working in the VR field. But here’s the quote that really got my interest (emphasis is mine): Others recall worrying about the presentation not being live, and thinking people might assume it was fake. Milo worked well, they say, but filming someone playing produced an optical illusion where it looked like Milo was staring at the audience rather than the player. Gee, sounds familiar? With the “Milo” demo, the problem was similar. Importing your (real) world into Minecraft.
Tak Tak Tak » Archive » Skeleton Tracking with Kinect & Processing. Gallery. Getting Started with Kinect and Processing. So, you want to use the Kinect in Processing.
Great. This page will serve to document the current state of my Processing Kinect library, with some tips and info. The current state of affairs Since the kinect launched in November 2010, there have been several models released. Here's a quick list of what is out there and what is supported in Processing for Mac OS X. Tanner's Website. With an Arduino Ethernet, Processing, and a Kinect, I was able to easily create this little demo where hand movement can control a servo.
This is just a tiny step in my master plan to create a robot clone so that I don’t have to leave my chair. <p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]</p> The following libraries and drivers made this work and also made it super easy for me to create it: Mobile Autonomous Robot using the Kinect. Given a priori knowledge of the environment and the goal position, mobile robot navigation refers to the robot’s ability to safely move towards the goal using its knowledge and sensorial information of the surrounding environment.
In fact, in mobile robot operating in unstructured environment, the knowledge of the environment is usually absent or partial. Therefore, obstacle detection and avoidance are always mentioned for mobile robot missions. Kinect is not only normal camera sensor but also a special device can provide depth map.Depth map is acquired through OpenNI library then processed by Point Cloud library to extract accurate information about the environment. Here is link of full project: (code + references in English, others in Vietnamese but still good to understand from the source code) Rosnodejs - Program robots with JavaScript. Rosnodejs is currently deprecated.
Most of my efforts for JavaScript and robotics has been shifted to the Robot Web Tools project. I highly recommend taking a look at Robot Web Tools if interested in putting your robot on the web. OpenGL Video Tutorial - Home. OpenGl - Tutorial 09 : Blending. Introduction Blending is commonly used to make objects translucent.
To view and understand some blending effects, it requieres some learning on how OpenGl computes Blending. Basic OpenGL Lighting. By Steve Baker Introduction.
Many people starting out with OpenGL are confused by the way that OpenGL's built-in lighting works - and consequently how colour functions. I hope to be able to clear up some of the confusion. OpenKinect - Keyboard Anywhere. Invisible Piano (Keyboard Anywhere, a Kinect Piano) After writing my previous instructable, I was asked about installing some slightly different software to use with the Kinect.
Since I'd already done it, I figured it wouldn't take to long to retrace my steps and write the instructable. After much frustration, I figured out a really easy process to get everything installed and talking. This instructable with walk you though getting a virtual keyboard working with the current release (11.04) of Ubuntu. There are other ways of doing this (which I've done in the past), but trying to reaccomplish the task, I found many shortcuts to what I did in the command line previously. If you have any questions on the command line or getting around in Ubuntu, please see my previous instructable. Also, don't transpose anything to terminal between [ ], it's there for reference. KinoogleFinalReport. KinoogleProposal. ROS and Kinect- Ubuntu Installation. ROS- Installation 1.0 Install ROS 1.1 check/add repositories 1.2 Setup your sources.list For Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb maverick main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list’ 1.3 Set up your keys wget -O – | sudo apt-key add - 1.4 Installation.
Installation and setup. Openni_launch. Overview This package contains launch files for using OpenNI-compliant devices such as the Microsoft Kinect in ROS.
It creates a nodelet graph to transform raw data from the device driver into point clouds, disparity images, and other products suitable for processing and visualization. Starting with ROS Hydro, all the functionality of openni_launch has been moved to rgbd_launch, in order to allow other drivers such as libfreenect (freenect_launch) to use the same code. openni_launch itself contains 1 launch file: launch/openni.launch - Launch RGB-D processing through rgbd_launch with the OpenNI driver. Quick start Launch the OpenNI driver. Kinect driver for ROS.
Getting the Kinect to Work. This post is about how I got kinect to work on my machine which is Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid using ROS What didn't Work: What works: Open NI does support the older Xbox 360 sensor, which we had in the lab. I tried it out and it worked perfect (close to). Major steps are outlined as follows. Mailing List Archive. Finger tracking with direction (Kinect + EmguCV) Hand Tracking (IMPROVED) Hello from 3Gear Systems. We're a three-person team based out of San Francisco trying to fundamentally change the way people interact with computers. We're excited to kick things off on our blog by announcing the release of a software development kit (SDK) for adding gestures to your applications. It's easy to forget that the mouse is over 40 years old. (Source: Wikipedia / SRI International) It's easy to forget that the mouse is over 40 years old. While today's mice are smoother and have more buttons, they haven't changed all that much. But your hands can do so much more than point at things!
At 3Gear, we're creating technology that uses your entire hand (fingers, thumbs, wrists and all) for user interaction. Ubidisplays - Easily create interactive projected displays anywhere! This tool makes building interactive projected displays quick and easy! This is UbiDisplays, a prototype toolkit for building interactive displays using a projector and a Microsoft Kinect. The software is still in beta and so please report bugs on the issues page. REPORT_DARIA-Final.doc. Mit-ros-pkg/KinectDemos. This page describes how to set up your system to run the kinect demos found in the mit-ros-pkg repository Kinect demos that you might want to check out include: General Installation.
Augmented Reality – What all the fuss is about - Who could ever forget Tom Cruise’s cool futuristic augmented reality computer in “Minority Report” where he effortlessly navigates the computer user interface using a series of natural gestures. I never thought that it was practical till I saw Piano Reality: an app where a user can use the camera feed to recognize the piano keys that are drew on an ordinary piece of paper, and then lets you play that piano. Piano Reality - Click to watch the video When Transformers 3 – Dark Side of the Moon was released in July 2011, Paramount Pictures introduced an augmented reality app for iOS called Defend the Earth.
Movie fans can download the app, locate a Transformers 3 poster, and scan the poster code to unlock an augmented reality, first-person shooter game. Hci.usask.ca/uploads/286-KinectArms_CameraReady.pdf. KinectArms: a Toolkit for Capturing and Displaying Arm Embodiments in Distributed Tabletop Groupware. Gestures are a ubiquitous part of human communication over tables, but when tables are distributed, gestures become difficult to capture and represent.
FingerTracker. Tuiokinect - A simple TUIO hand tracker for Kinect. KinectArms: a Toolkit for Capturing and Displaying Arm Embodiments in Distributed Tabletop Groupware. KinectArms Introductory Video. Sstephenson/kinect. Ray Chambers - Kinect Goodies. Want to make a basic Kinect SDK App… now you can :) Using Innovation as well as the Kinect In Education. Lcna_co2012_dalal.pdf. Kinect. Kinect Open Source Programming Secrets. Kinect Open Source Programming Secrets (KOPS) is the only book that explains the official Java wrappers for OpenNI and NITE. Patriciogonzalezvivo/KinectCoreVision. Kinect+OpenNI学习笔记之. Kinect+OpenNI学习笔记之8(Robert Walter手部提取代码的分析) - tornadomeet. 前言 一般情况下,手势识别的第一步就是先手势定位,即手势所在部位的提取。 Finger Tracking with Kinect SDK for XBOX - Project Directory. Kinect « Search Results. Kinect 3D Hand Tracking. Note: This page regards the demo version alone.
Please, find a library version here. This work got the 1st prize at the CHALEARN Gesture Recognition demonstration competition (Check also this link). The competition was organized in conjunction with ICPR 2012 (Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 2012). By downloading this demo you agree to the bounds and terms described in this license. Note: You can download the 3D Hand Tracking library here. Hand and finger tracking using the Kinect - Freenect. Kinect - fingertip detection. Finger Tracking with Kinect SDK (and the Kinect for XBox 360 Device) KinectEDucation. Kinect Hand Tracking. 1. Kinect Controls Windows 7 – Win&I; 2. Kinect Hacks Are Going Way Too Far.
2. Installing the Kinect Sensor · sanghi/metalab_rgbdemo Wiki. Kinect tutorial 1: First steps - Robotica. 12 BEST Kinect HACKS. Kinect on a Pioneer Mobile Robot with Onboard SBC - MobileRobots Research and Academic Customer Support. How to: Install Kinect in Linux (Mint 12, Ubuntu 12.04) « Igor Barbosa. Kinect on the BeagleBoard (and Ubuntu) Setting up Kinect for programming in Linux (part 1) Freenect - Latest news covering Kinect projects, applications, programming and hacking.