Friday, November 19, 2010

Kinect hack creates world's greatest shadow puppet (video)

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Hey Xbox 360 Kinect owners, want to spice up those family shadow
puppet shows? Then check out the installation prototype created by
Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson using an Xbox Kinect connected to a
laptop using the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect. The
openFrameworks system tracks the elbow, wrist, thumb, and tips of the
fingers to map a skeleton onto the movement and posture of an animated
puppet. And get this: it was made in a day. So just imagine the Kinect
homebrew we'll have around this time next year. See it in action after
the break.

[Thanks, Pradeep]

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