Fast typing to console controllers

http://circboard.com/ explore a nice idea to allow user to type "fast" with a gamepad.



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Kinect Hack to play to Cube 2

This guy develop a hack that allow to take control of the Cube 2 game.
The depth map is simply thresholded and the localization of the blob is used to set the direction of the game character.

Kinect hardware alternative from Asus

Wavi Xtion. Its the name of the Asus product to make a "clone" of the Kinect Tech for the PC world. It's seems that the tech is based on PRIMESENSE tech.

If you want to know more : Here

Sixth Sense interface

I really like the concept at 3 minutes by using the white page and a logo as a tracking pattern.
It's like a reverse movement captation (a computer vision gyroscope !).


SixthSense from Fluid Interfaces on Vimeo.

Found here http://vimeo.com/17567999

"'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, 'SixthSense' sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. 'SixthSense' attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer."

The multitouch on a blended surface

The german university of Aachen is cirrrently working on a original multitouch interface. They purpose a bended multitouch screen. By using IR led an videoprojector.

Such project is interesting as more an more people have used to work with multi screen display.
I really like the idea that the band that are the more blended is used as a thumbnails view for photo sorting.

Kinect camera Hack !

The Kinect camera is out, and some guyalready hack the DepthMap images to make TechDemo :




XBox Kinect running on OS X ( with source code ) from Theo Watson on Vimeo.

I have tested Kinect !

Kinect from Microsoft works well. Sometimes it lag, but it works quite good.

You are able to recognize your avatar posture immediately, normal, it's you !
When you play you move a lot, and you have a lot of fun.

I have got a good score in the three mini games I have tested so I got the right to record my own dance and see some avatar make the same moves as me in music !

 WII tested, Kinect Tested.... Remains the PlaystationMove...

Natal/Kinect core information

Here some images of the Natal core :
=> We could see the depth images and the segmentation (Find the player and articulation).

here a video that illustrate all the process :.

Sony RayModeler 360° screen concept

Here the video of the RayModeler screen concept.
It's a 360° screen. The video show you that the system use a combined stream of video to dispaly all the viewpoint simultaneously.

AirMouse

This mouse concept is wireless and do not impose you an object to move on the table...

I do not know if the human body feels better to move with this kind of glove... and I do not garantee the smell if you sweat a lot...

This project for sure have been inspired from Minority Report and the magic gloves... But it's interesting to see the approach to remove classic device and purposing a more natural way of moving to give order to our dear computer...

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