Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.
Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.
Let’s face it… Kinect hacks continue to be cool. Here’s an elegant one for a music video for the singer BELL, which uses the motion senser and a projector to display elegant designs on her face.
Jean-Christophe Naour’s Kinect Graffiti uses Microsoft’s Kinect to respond to gestures creating real-time light paintings.
via laughingsquid
Using four Kinect sensors and some heavy duty realtime processing, 3D videoconferencing has been set up at University of North Carolina.
3D is the latest gimmick when it comes to watching TV, but this is something beyond novelty. Apart from making the “tele” part seem more realistic, the system can use “mixed reality” to track eyes in 3D space. This opens up the door to more serious applications not just about how we’re perceived, but about how we blend our natural communication methods with digital ones.
http://www.vizworld.com/2011/06/amazing-kinect-driven-3d-telepresence-system/
Contributed by Kevin Jeong
Another Kinect hack – this one reminiscent of Radiohead’s House of Cards.
http://timbretantrum.com/2011/04/08/mndr-cut-me-out-video/
More artists are using XBox Kinect hacks to create stunning art based around people.
Photographer Audrey Penven captured the patterns of infrared light produced by the Kinect and the results are beautiful.
http://laughingsquid.com/audrey-penven-reveals-the-hidden-beauty-of-microsofts-kinect/
Contributed by James Taylor
Introducing TurtleBot, a robot from Willow Garage built on an Open Source ROS (Robot Operating System) platform with an XBOX Kinect to sense motion, the ability to make and save maps and a camera to capture 360° photos. And it’s all on wheels!
http://www.willowgarage.com/turtlebot
The XBOX Kinect is spawning lots of fun and creative hacks, including this one – making a small plastic version of people as seen by the hardware.
http://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/fabricate-yourself-openframeworks-kinect/
