Augmented reality with hacked Kinect on PC – CyberEye

UPDATE info: Subject: PC oriented Kinect hacks for augmented reality Stories: live 3D lightsaber effect, surface depth recognition and conversion to multitouch surface, virtual piano OpenKinect drivers (Win7, Linux, OS X) – goo.gl Reverse engineer Kinect USB – goo.gl Exact transcript: Greetings! This is another CyberEye broadcast UPDATING you on the latest and greatest of Kinect hacks and projects. The following few experiments is a good indication of many future sophisticated augmented reality programs using Kinect. Let’s begin with a quick fun video. This guy named Yan has used the Kinect to track a wooden stick and made it glow on the screen. He says the next step would be to add a flying droid that shoots lasers, a blind fold, and so on. Once again the possibilities appear to rather limitless. Moving on to something more complex, but still interesting of course. The seasoned interactive surface team Patten Studio has put together this wonderful demo where they convert any real surface into a multi-touch interactive plane. The Kinect looks at the scene in 3D, you establish a plane and boundaries for the interaction area, and boom, multi-touch. The team used projectors to project onto a variety of surfaces and calibrated Kinect to track their movements. Aside from these rather astounding results, this also seems like the first official “looking” hack, and it works quite well. Now, onto some cool musical applications. This video shows a man playing a virtual piano which …
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