The recent release of OpenKinect, the open-source drivers for the Microsoft Kinect, has unleashed a creative tsunami. Just days after OpenKinect announcement, scores of digital artists, reearchers and hobbyists have started to demonstrate a dazzling array of projects including RadioHead-like point clouds, skeletal tracking, multi-touch, etc. No doubt there is much more to come. While [...]
I’ve been playing around with the capturing depthmap images using the Microsoft Kinect and now trying to render them as point clouds. To work with still images rather than streaming videos, the first thing I did is to modify the glview sample program that comes with the OpenKinect library (these guys are awesome!) so that [...]
I couldn’t resist the urge to get my hands on a Microsoft Kinect, after open-source developers have announced that they have written drivers for the device to run on Linux and yes, the Mac OS. This is an amazing feat, given that they got the alternative drivers working just days after the Kinect product launch. [...]