Top 10 Best Kinect Hacks Thanks to ever-growing Kinect Community, there are a lot of great Kinect programs/hacks out there and more come each day. The artists, developers and technology enthusiast who belong to the Kinect Community have presented and share their Kinect programs not only within the community, but also to the rest of the world. In honor of the community as well as the Kinect device, Kinecthacks.com has currently compiled its TOP 10 BEST KINECT HACKS. The team has gone through a lot of content it has featured in order to create this list of the best and most brilliant Kinect programs. The following programs have been selected for pushing the Kinect Technology, its unique creativity and its goal in improving daily routines and tasks. For its contributions to the community as well as its potential, these programs have made it on our Top 10 List. Without further ado, the Top 10 Best Kinect Hacks of Kinecthacks.com (Updated September 10, 2011) 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Kinect - Medien Wiki The Microsoft® XBOX 360 Kinect is a motion controller developped by PrimeSense. It projects a pattern with infrared light and calculates a depth image using a camera. It also has a color camera and four microphones. About Blogs and portals Software Applications CocoaKinect App Freenect by Robert Pointon Synapse generates sceleton data and provides it as OSC[[OSC|Open Sound Control]] ofxFaceTracker provides face metrics (orientation, eye and mouth open/closed) over OSC[[OSC|Open Sound Control]] codelaboratories.com/kb/nui TUIO Kinect lets you define a depth range where multiple blobs can be detected. SDKs, Frameworks and Libraries Depth image openkinect.org Drivers, Installation pix_freenect for Pd[[Pure Data]] a dataflow programming environment (incl. binaries work without any compiling) fux_kinect Object for Pd[[Pure Data]] a dataflow programming environment ofxKinect openFramworks Kinect integration vvvv kinect integration Skeleton data Successors/Competitors
Kinect Graffiti Tool by Jean-Christophe Naour (@njc002) #processing Kinect Graffiti Tool is work in progress by Jean-Christophe Naour, Seoul (Korea) based designer. Idea behind the project is to use Kinect to track the motion of graffiti, not too dissimilar from Graffiti Analysis project by Evan Roth. Instead of visualising only hand gestures, Jean-Christophe’s Processing application visualizes body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, attempting to understand surrounding space, etc…using light painting as a reference. This clip and images below show the latest test, focused on the generation of 3d strokes + openGL mapping. Earlier version also included at the bottom of the post. Libraries used: peasycam (camera), controlP5 (gui/control), oscP5 (osc), opengl (textures), toxiclibs (3d vertex, vectors).
MIT Uses XBox Kinect to Create Minority Report Interface Minority Report has come to life thanks to the Kinect and MIT. In the movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise uses an advanced user interface system that lets him control media files with nothing more than a gesture from his gloved hands. He could do the same now with little more than an XBox. A member of the research staff at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created a Minority Report interface using the Kinect 3D sensor and a bunch of open source software. Not only does the device only cost $150, you can use it without any dorky gloves. Garratt Gallagher, the interfaces’s creator, shows off some basic gesture controls in the video below. Did Microsoft understand what they were doing when they put a $150 3D motion tracker on the market? Compare Gallagher’s setup to the original system shown in the movie. And Gallagher did it all using open source software! [screen capture and video credit: MIT CSAIL] [source: MIT CSAIL]
Daniel Shiffman The Microsoft Kinect sensor is a peripheral device (designed for XBox and windows PCs) that functions much like a webcam. However, in addition to providing an RGB image, it also provides a depth map. Meaning for every pixel seen by the sensor, the Kinect measures distance from the sensor. This makes a variety of computer vision problems like background removal, blob detection, and more easy and fun! The Kinect sensor itself only measures color and depth. However, once that information is on your computer, lots more can be done like “skeleton” tracking (i.e. detecting a model of a person and tracking his/her movements). What hardware do I need? First you need a “stand-alone” kinect. Standalone Kinect Sensor v1. Some additional notes about different models: Kinect 1414: This is the original kinect and works with the library documented on this page in the Processing 3.0 beta series. SimpleOpenNI I’m ready to get started right now What is Processing? What if I don’t want to use Processing?
Codasign Two Kinects Can Make A Model Of The World Around You @Bakamoichigei: If someone did this professionally, couldn't they simply code something to cut out a lot of that? Like, the table above...if it's clear there's a linear surface, could a program figure that out and when displaying it on screen reduce all that interference? @Luke Plunkett: The issue is this part right here: "if it's clear there's a linear surface." It may be clear to you and me, but it wouldn't be so clear to a computer. Although one could do this to an extent through on-the-fly detection algorithms, you are almost sure to either miss some elements that are linear or mark some non-linear objects as linear (probably both). So unfortunately, the simple fix gets complicated fast. The absolute best way I can think of to remove the interference would be to either polarize the IR from each Kinect or have each Kinect produce a slightly different wavelength in the IR spectrum. @Kenneth Blaney: If I'm not the only one with the polarizer idea, WHY ISN'T IT DONE YET?
libfreenect/OpenNI2-FreenectDriver at master · OpenKinect/libfreenect How to use Quartz Composer, Synapse & Xbox Kinect on your Mac If you’re looking to kickstart your Kinect programming and create some magic on the Mac, then this is the place to be. In this tutorial we use Synapse, Quartz Composer and the Kinect sensor to create a cool motion-activated particle effect that lets you move an animation around your screen using only your hands. Please note, this tutorial has been completed using Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Download the Project Files This tutorial will guide you through all the steps necessary to install and use Quartz Composer and Synapse with the Xbox Kinect on Mac. Download Project Files Step 1: Setup the Xbox Kinect First things first, before we can move forward, you’ll need to make sure you have your Xbox Kinect setup. Step 2: Install Quartz Composer Quartz Composer is an amazing app created by Apple, and distributed via the Apple Developer network. 1. Menubar navigation to ‘More Developer Tools…’ 2. At the time of writing, there is a developer preview of Graphics Tools for Xcode 5 Preview. 3. 1. 2.
Main Page kinect_openni Le Framework OpenNI (les API) et les pilotes (Sensor) sont en licence GNUGPL Creation de l'environnement de travail (par défaut, dans /home/$USER/) mkdir ~/kinect && cd ~/kinect Récupération des fichiers avec git git clone Compilation et installation Les paramètres de compilation sont en SSE3, par défaut. cat /proc/cpuinfo Si, dans les flags vous voyez sse3 ou msse3 ou ssse3, vous n'avez pas a changer les paramètres de compilation. cd OpenNI/Platform/Linux/Build make && sudo make install Le contenu de ce wiki est sous licence : CC BY-SA v3.0 Weekend Project: Hack Microsoft Kinect Earlier this month, hardware hacker Hector Marcan released his open source Kinect drivers, wining the $3,000 in prize money put up by Adafruit Industries, a NY-based company that sells DIY electronics kits. Since then, a lot of people have been posting hacks made possible through the release of these open source drivers - something which may have inspired you to hack your own Kinect peripheral. Many non-technical folks have become more comfortable with hacking, thanks to the ease of "hacks" like jailbreaking the iPhone or rooting an Android. However, hacking Kinect isn't as easy as you might think. OpenKinect Resource List There's no need to do a full copy and past of the "how to" instructions here, as the complete, fully documented online guide is now available from this site: ladyada.net/learn/diykinect. Other resources you should be aware of, if you're daring to get involved with this project, include the following: Psst...Microsoft Likes Kinect Hackers ? Kinect Hack: Motors ...And More!
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