Technology Inc. - Microchip’s New GestIC® Technology Enables Mobile-Friendly 3D Gesture Interfaces Images High-res Photo Available Through Flickr or Editorial Contact (feel free to publish): Download Hi-Res High-res Block Diagram Available Through Flickr or Editorial Contact (feel free to publish): Download Hi-Res Video Watch a short video demonstration: Watch / Link / Embed Video CHANDLER, Ariz., Nov. 13, 2012 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced its patented GestIC® technology, which enables the next dimension in intuitive, gesture-based, non-contact user interfaces for a broad range of end products. Watch a short video demonstration: View a brief presentation: With power consumption as low as 150 microwatts in its active sensing state, the MGC3130 enables always-on 3D gesture recognition—even for battery-powered products where power budgets are extremely tight. Development Support Additional Images (Click to enlarge)
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. Without further ado, the Top 10 Best Kinect Hacks of Kinecthacks.com (Updated September 10, 2011) 10. The concept of a virtual fitting room has reached a new pinnacle of success! 9. Play games, browse the internet and get necessary information through our wall! 8. 7.
K-8 computer programming CEVA Gesture Recognition solutions for mobile and home entertainment devices eyeSight is a leader in Touch Free Interfaces for digital devices. The company was established with the vision to revolutionize the way people interact with digital devices, to create an interaction which is both simple and intuitive. eyeSight’s solution is based on advanced image processing and machine vision algorithms, which analyze real time video input from common built-in cameras. CEVA DSP Cores Supported Partnering in Market Solutions Mobile Phones Tablets Portable media players, game consoles TV media center and smart home controllers Product Offering eyeSight’s Technology powers Touch Free UI Solutions which enhance the User Experience while operating devices and applications.
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. 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. For those who regularly follow Singularity Hub, you’ll remember that the scientist who was asked to design the original interface shown in the movie, John Underkoffler, is also from MIT. And Gallagher did it all using open source software!
Family Feud - Personalize your Game and Play on the Web - STRETCh Instructor Here are the directions for creating your own Family Feud game that can be played by your students at any time, from any computer, from any place. It also makes for a great project that students in grades 5-12 can create on their own! The format used is Scratch, which is a FREE program from MIT. ANSWERS for game on web: (warm-up activity, differentiation, whole brain learning, making connections, engagement, word choice) I have provided step by step directions - everything from downloading the free program onto your computer, the screen shots of the 7 programming blocks you will need to change and directions for uploading your project to the web where your students can play! If you need a video tutorial as well...just email me at heidi@stretchinstructor.com after you have downloaded the direction sheet. You will absolutely love this one! Home-schoolers this is an awesome project to help improve math and computational thinking skills!
PCs of the near future: Intel lays out next-gen plans | CES 2013 LAS VEGAS--PCs on your coffee table, playing Monopoly. Super-thin ultrabooks. Voice and gestural computing. Intel showed these and more at their CES 2013 press conference. Fourth-gen Intel Core processors aren't on their way immediately, but at this year's CES Intel was ready to demonstrate how its "Haswell" code-named chips will make Windows 8 devices of tomorrow even thinner and smaller than now ... if you're in need of that. Haswell is part of Intel's road map for computers into 2014, and the biggest gains could be in battery life and extra features normally not seen in laptops. Intel also demonstrated table-top computers, some of which are here already in devices like the Vaio Tap 20 . Perceptual computing was demonstrated via eye-tracking software and motion-control technology, using a Kinect-like peripheral from Creative that adds 10-finger gesture recognition. Finally, Intel even dabbled in pay TV.
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). 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. And while we are modding the OME of the Kinect, we might as well add more points of light and an HD camera.
just heard about a program called Enchanting and PrimeSense reveals Capri, 'world's smallest' 3D sensor PrimeSense™ Unveils Capri, World's Smallest 3D Sensing Device at CES 2013 TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PrimeSense™ ( the leader in Natural Interaction and 3D sensing solutions, today announced the launch of its next generation embedded 3D sensor, Capri, demonstrating a revolutionary small form factor and low cost. PrimeSense will debut Capri as part of its World of 3D Sensing suite at the Renaissance Hotel in Las Vegas, January 8-11 at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). PrimeSense's breakthrough reference design utilizes Capri - PrimeSense's next-generation of depth acquisition System on Chip, with improved algorithms including multi-modal 3D sensing techniques. "Using cutting-edge technologies, our newest generation of sensors is robust, accurate and affordable," said Inon Beracha, CEO, PrimeSense.
Main Page K-8 programming playground Striving To Reach Every Talented Child & Scratch GPS: Finding your way-Girls Programming in Scratch This website is provided with a wealth of resources in order to help K-8 teachers infuse computer programming INTO their curriculum. How do we get students engaged and excited about STEM careers? What better way than to infuse video games within our content areas! You DO NOT have to be a computer expert or know coding to infuse Scratch into your existing curriculum! One Per Cent: Hands on with Leap Motion's gestural interface Niall Firth, technology editor I'm slicing and dicing my way through melons as if my life depends on it, every twitch of my finger dispatching another pile of soft fruit. This is Fruit Ninja as it has never been played before - using the Leap, the much-hyped gestural control device made by start-up firm Leap Motion that is set to launch worldwide in March. The device itself is a small box, just 8 centimetres long, which contains infrared cameras that can track each finger independently at an accuracy of 1/100th of a millimetre. It creates an invisible 3D box above the device in which your fingers are tracked 290 times per second. Teaser videos have confirmed the Leap's status as The Next Big Thing and, now that software developers have had a chance to get their hands on it and give their feedback, it is due to launch worldwide. Is it worth the hype? It's clever and intuitive stuff - but what's it going to be used for?