More MIT Kinect lovin'. This hack showcases finger detection and a pretty sweet graphical UI patterned after the film Minority Report. It uses the Point Cloud Library from the ROS package.
MIT really loves the Kinect. They've placed a Kinect sensor inside of a quad-copter and taught it how to fly around on it's own. Unlike past attempts to build a Hunter-Killer, this one doesnt need GPS or even a connection to an outside PC. It get's all of it's data via the camera from the Kinect.
Way back in the olden days, when computers only had 16 colors and printers had daisy wheels (look it up), we didn't have DVD's or HDTVs, but we did have Kinect...or at least Tom DeWitt had a early prototype of a similar system that ran on and Apple IIe (look it up).
I used to have a Rockem Sockem Robots game and I loved it. But now that I'm older and more mature, I need my robot violence to be a little more advanced. And now, thanks to youtube user ikaziso, it is. Unfortunately my Japanese is a little rusty so it may be a while before I can replicate this at home.
You know how motion capture requires you to put on a skintight black suit, then glue hundreds of silver balls on your body and then $30,000 worth of equipment would record it all? Not any more.
A group of smart people from MIT(which kinda describes everyone at MIT) used a single Kinect sensor, off the shelf graphic chips and a whole lot of nerd power to create a real time holographic projection that Princess Leia would be proud of.
This demo was created to celebrate 10 years of wikipedia. Using openframeworks, OpenCV, and the Wikipedia API, partygoers can form articles from letter particles using their bodies. It makes more sense when you see it in action, so go ahead and click play.
No, it's not a weird ParaPara dance, a couple of University of Twente students hooked up the Kinect sensor to Tetris and made the game even more frustrating than before. 2 people play, one spins the blocks and the other drops the bricks. They used the OpenNi codebase to get it done.
