Trial of "touchless" gaming technology in surgery. 31 May 2012Last updated at 02:39 ET By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News The technology could be a valuable aid to sugery Doctors in London are trialling "touchless" technology, often used in TV games, to help them carry out delicate keyhole surgery.
The system allows them to manipulate images with their voice and hand-gestures rather than using a keyboard and mouse. Surgeons say it gives them more control and avoids disruption. Independent experts say this approach could become the norm over the next ten or 15 years. Surgeons are increasingly reliant on 3D images to carry out complex and delicate procedures. Aging In Place Center Uses Xbox Technology To Keep Seniors Safe. Vernon and Jeanne Barr, ages 96 and 89 respectively, are guinea pigs of sorts.
They are part of a scientific experiment that uses video gaming technology -- the same technology used in Xbox game system to be exact -- to detect the onset of illness and protect seniors against falls. Kinect-based system watches where you put things in your home. New Stroke Recovery Technology Incorporates Use Of Xbox Kinect. 'Minority Report' technology steps closer to reality with Leap Motion - Tech News. Got an Kinect App? Need a web site? Here's a template for you...
So you've been working on your Kinect app or project, banging away night and day in Visual Studio and you're ready to show it off to the world.
But now you need a web site too. It sure would be nice if there were some kind of Kinect App Web Site template available... The Single-Page Kinect App Site template is an easily configured, simple template with all the elements in place, intended as a quick-start for any Kinect developer to promote their app.View the default site here: Kinect App Site DemoIdea for this project came when I want to publish some Kinect app of mine. Recently have seen and I decided to make something similar but for Kinect enabled applications.The HTML is fully commented to make setup and customization as quick and easy as possible.The site uses: Project Information URL: Project Download URL: Project Source URL: Contact Information:
Small USB dongle for your Mac makes Microsoft’s Kinect look like a drunk, stumbling uncle (with video) Apr 11, 2014 - 05:15 PM EDT — AAPL: 519.61 (-3.87, -0.74%) | NASDAQ: 3999.734 (-54.372, -1.34%) “Imagine that you could buy a tiny USB-powered box that detected your motion like Microsoft’s Kinect, only instead of watching you jump around a room, it watched your hands and fingers.
Imagine that the box was sensitive enough to track the tip of a pencil tracing out letters in a 1cm square of space, and to turn that into accurate handwriting on the screen,” Charlie Sorrel reports for Cult of Mac. Blogs. I am pleased to announce that today we have released version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK.
Additionally, Kinect for Windows hardware is now available in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. Starting next month, Kinect for Windows hardware will be available in 15 additional countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, India, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. When this wave of expansion is complete, Kinect for Windows will be available in 31 countries around the world. Go to our Kinect for Windows website to find a reseller in your region. We have added more capabilities to help developers build amazing applications, including: Kinect Studio, our new tool which allows developers to record and play back Kinect data, dramatically shortening and simplifying the development lifecycle of a Kinect application.
'Telepod' is a fully-3D virtual person projection system. The reason 3D sucks is that it's usually not 3D.
It's 2D, plus a token smidge of depth. True 3D is something that you can walk entirely around and seamlessly view from all sides, which is what you'll find in this life-sized telepod that can project an entire person straight into your living room. Developed by a group of hard-working Canadians at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in, you know, Canada, the telepod is a cylindrical display system capable of projecting an entire person inside itself in three glorious dimensions.
This means that you can walk around the outside of the telepod, and it'll seem like you're walking around a person inside it at the same time. Watch: Microsoft Applies for Patent on Augmented Reality, 3-D Audio. Microsoft's 3D audio patent application could add new features to the Kinect.
Photo: USPTO Surround-sound systems are great for playing games and watching movies when you’re in the “sweet spot” of focused audio. Arduino. Adafruit Industries. Modern Device. Martijn Thé – iPhone & iPad Development & Interaction Design » Interfacing an optical mouse sensor to your Arduino. In this tutorial I’ll describe how you can connect the optical sensor inside a cheap mouse to your Arduino and have it read out the x- and y-movements.
This will enable your Arduino to handle mouse input, detect surface movements, measure surface speed, etc. Materials. Products. The Kinect Accelerator. Want to know more what the Microsoft accelerator is like?
Check out the journey from the Kinect class Freak'n Genius CEO, Kyle Kesterson, and CTO, Dwayne Mercredi, describe how their YAKiT application uses Kinect for Windows skeletal tracking to create fun animations in real time. With Kinect for Windows, a limited webcam app becomes a premium avateering solution with the ability to animate a character with fully articulated joints and limbs. Kinect Fundamentals Tutorial Series updated for v1. KinectEDucation Community.
Motion Database HDM05. It is the objective of our motion capture database HDM05 to supply free motion capture data for research purposes.
HDM05 contains more than three hours of systematically recorded and well-documented motion capture data in the C3D as well as in the ASF/AMC data format. Furthermore, HDM05 contains for more than 70 motion classes in 10 to 50 realizations executed by various actors. The HDM05 database has been designed and set up under the direction of Meinard MüllerTido Röder, Michael Clausen, Bernhard Eberhardt, Björn Krüger, and Andreas Weber. The motion capturing has been conducted in the year 2005 at the Hochschule der Medien (HDM), Stuttgart, Germany, supervised by Bernhard Eberhardt. Using Relays with Arduino – Turning on the Lights. Warning!!! This project deals with AC electricity which is dangerous if you don’t know how to treat it safely. All About Kinect. The Kinect is currently the hardware that provides developers with the greatest opportunities for innovative programs - both games and "serious" artificial applications.
How does it work? How do you use it? What can you use it for? Microsoft's Kinect is described as a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" and is commonly sold bundled with the Xbox 360 - but to see it as just another way to play games is to underestimate its significance. In this article we look at how it works, why it is special and what people are doing with it. Microsoft acquired the 3D sensing technology that is the key to the Kinect hardware from Israeli company PrimeSense. Essentially this hardware is a box with some cameras that makes use of infra-red (IR) illumination to obtain depth data, color images and sound.
A custom chip processes the data to provide a depth field that is correlated with the color image. The PrimeSense reference implementation The depth map. FAAST Video Gallery. World of Warcraft (proof-of-concept) Controlling Virtual Humans and Video Games Astrojumper Exercise Game Virtual Rehabilitation Introduction.