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Wed, 11 May 2011 04:18:00 -0700 Magic Kinect Hack for Kids: Little Magic Stories | Chris O'Shea http://1001tales.posterous.com/magic-kinect-hack-for-kids-little-magic-stori http://1001tales.posterous.com/magic-kinect-hack-for-kids-little-magic-stori

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Little Magic Stories

Bringing the imagination of children to life through storytelling, performance and technology.

This installation aims to encourage children to use their creativity to bring stories to life. It helps to improve their confidence in self expression and develops literacy and speaking skills. The installation allows them to create a performance from within their imagination, on stage, in front of an audience of family and friends.

The use of technology literally brings their drawings to life on stage, allowing them to interact and respond to their creations in real time. By using a holographic projection film; sets, characters and objects appear to float on stage alongside the performers. A camera and custom software track the performers, allowing the scene to react in a playful & more dynamic way.

For children who show disinterest in writing stories and drawing, but love to play video games, this project hopes to inspire them to participate, creating their own immersive worlds that they can be proud to express their own creations through.

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Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:22:00 -0700 This is SOOO Genius I could Cry: Kinect to help the blind 'see' in augmented reality http://1001tales.posterous.com/this-is-sooo-genius-i-could-cry-kinect-to-hel http://1001tales.posterous.com/this-is-sooo-genius-i-could-cry-kinect-to-hel

think how fast this will become streamlined & smaller... wow

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Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:58:00 -0800 Little Magic Stories with Kinect - Kids' Imagination Comes to Life http://1001tales.posterous.com/little-magic-stories-with-kinect-kids-imagina http://1001tales.posterous.com/little-magic-stories-with-kinect-kids-imagina

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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:43:00 -0800 Big Like: Music Vid made in Kinect: Moullinex - Catalina RT @CreatorsProject http://1001tales.posterous.com/big-like-music-vid-made-in-kinect-moullinex-c http://1001tales.posterous.com/big-like-music-vid-made-in-kinect-moullinex-c

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Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:24:00 -0800 3 years on from Radiohead's House of Cards: Kinect hack creates 'Echo Lake - Young Silence' http://1001tales.posterous.com/3-years-on-from-radioheads-house-of-cards-kin http://1001tales.posterous.com/3-years-on-from-radioheads-house-of-cards-kin

A recent article by Russell M Davies in WiredUk commented that ubiquitous computing will be realized through the 'debasement of technology' -- where expensive computing technologies become ubiquitous through their rapid transformation into cheap available ubiquitous devices. Welcome the Kinect....

See the WiredUK post here:

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/02/start/russell-m-davies

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Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:42:00 -0800 Just so cool: Kinect hack builds 3D maps of the real world (Wired UK) http://1001tales.posterous.com/just-so-cool-kinect-hack-builds-3d-maps-of-th http://1001tales.posterous.com/just-so-cool-kinect-hack-builds-3d-maps-of-th
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Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:25:00 -0800 ooooooo! Super cool hack! RT @tm_augmentedrea >> Augmented Reality Magic Mirror using the Kinect http://1001tales.posterous.com/ooooooo-super-cool-hack-rt-tmaugmentedrea-aug http://1001tales.posterous.com/ooooooo-super-cool-hack-rt-tmaugmentedrea-aug

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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:16:00 -0800 WOW!!! Kinect Hacked to Play World of Warcraft: Welcome to the Future of Gaming | Fast Company http://1001tales.posterous.com/wow-kinect-hacked-to-play-world-of-warcraft-w http://1001tales.posterous.com/wow-kinect-hacked-to-play-world-of-warcraft-w

Excerpt:

"Kinect hacks are coming thick and fast, but here is one that will set millions of PC gamers' hearts a-flutter: A hack that lets you gesture control a game of World of Warcraft.

The tech is coming from the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, where a team has built a toolkit, dubbed the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit, which lets them quickly harness Kinect's various image processing and motion-sensing powers to whatever bits of code they desire. This middleware, with some tweaks, lets FAAST quickly facilitate "integration of full-body control with games and VR applications," via a clever processing server that streams the user's skeleton pattern, including body position and gestures which can be mapped onto keyboard controls.

The code is free for non-commercial use, because the Institute has big plans for it--including simple, medically inspired games for rehabilitation of motor-skills after a stroke, and even for reducing childhood obesity through "healthy gaming" (though, given the wild flailing Kinect-playing requires, the health of coffee tables and trinkets around the world might be in danger)..."

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Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:12:47 -0800 More Fun Hacking Kinect from Eric Gradman: "Standard Gravity" - OpenKinect (libfreenect/python) http://1001tales.posterous.com/more-fun-hacking-kinect-from-eric-gradman-sta http://1001tales.posterous.com/more-fun-hacking-kinect-from-eric-gradman-sta

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Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:05:00 -0800 Hacking with Kinect on Vimeo http://1001tales.posterous.com/hacking-with-kinect-on-vimeo http://1001tales.posterous.com/hacking-with-kinect-on-vimeo

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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:14:17 -0800 Dancing with Invisible Light: portraits shot with Kinect's infrared structured light http://1001tales.posterous.com/dancing-with-invisible-light-portraits-shot-w http://1001tales.posterous.com/dancing-with-invisible-light-portraits-shot-w
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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:22:11 -0800 Cool Kinect Morphing demo: Body Dysmorphic Disorder http://1001tales.posterous.com/cool-kinect-morphing-demo-body-dysmorphic-dis http://1001tales.posterous.com/cool-kinect-morphing-demo-body-dysmorphic-dis

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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:16:41 -0800 Kinect driving artistic experimentation: Microsoft Kinect Makes Any Surface Touchable | GottaBeMobile http://1001tales.posterous.com/kinect-driving-artistic-experimentation-micro http://1001tales.posterous.com/kinect-driving-artistic-experimentation-micro

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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:27:00 -0800 Kids are reacting well to Kinect (Wired UK) http://1001tales.posterous.com/kids-are-reacting-well-to-kinect-wired-uk http://1001tales.posterous.com/kids-are-reacting-well-to-kinect-wired-uk
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From the original post:

 

30 November 10

 

"Getting it setup was a dream in comparison to Move. I hadn't realised the 360's Kinect sensor bar was motorised which helped the system keep them in shot. After a quick calibration we managed to start our game of Kinect Sportswith just voice control. "How did you do that?" they asked. "Magic," I said.

Playing the game, they were as eager as ever. But rather than this ending in frustration, they found they could easily compete with me in most of the sports activities. Once they got the idea that they needed to run on the spot rather than round the room, and generally stay in front of the camera, they were away."

 

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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:50:49 -0800 Particle System generator/Kinect builds 3D geometry like real world Matrix: Illuminous by Eric Gradman http://1001tales.posterous.com/particle-system-generatorkinect-builds-3d-geo http://1001tales.posterous.com/particle-system-generatorkinect-builds-3d-geo

From original post:

egradman | November 23, 2010 |

I had so much fun demonstrating StandardGravity on Saturday, that I decided to build this piece on Sunday.

Remember that scene at the end of the matrix where glowing green symbols traced across an agent's body? Well, this is just like that, but in realtime. What you're looking at here is a particle system, where YOU are the source of the particles. Particles (seen on screen as dots) spring into being on the surface of your body. They then traverse the contours of your body until they reach an edge, at which point they're flung into space and disappear. All this is possible because the Kinect lets me reconstruct the 3d geometry of whatever it sees.

There are other forces at work on the particles in this universe. Upon being flung into space, particles are acted upon by a sort of shifting wind (actually a perlin noise field)

The coolest part of this demo though is that you can really see how the particle system is sensitive to the geometry of the objects within view. In my hand here, I'm holding a bowl . When I turn the inside of the bowl to either face towards or face away from the camera, you can see the tendency of the particles to stream down surfaces. That behavior is noticably different when you're looking at the convex or the concave side of the bowl.

Once again, I've written this system using the freencet python bindings. The graphics are done with Panda3D. The particle system is a python module written in C. I'm losing some framerate because I'm passing depth data via shared memory, but the new version of the libraries don't require these sorts of software gymnastics.

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Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:54:00 -0800 Must watch for 1st 10 seconds (I won't say why ;): Kinect: Dance Central Full Motion Preview with Jessica Chobot http://1001tales.posterous.com/must-watch-for-1st-10-seconds-i-wont-say-why http://1001tales.posterous.com/must-watch-for-1st-10-seconds-i-wont-say-why

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Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:25:00 -0800 Super cool AR! Interactive Puppet Prototype with Xbox Kinect http://1001tales.posterous.com/super-cool-ar-interactive-puppet-prototype-wi http://1001tales.posterous.com/super-cool-ar-interactive-puppet-prototype-wi

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Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:57:00 -0800 Oh WOW. Check this: Multitouch Interface with hacked Kinect demo video (HD) http://1001tales.posterous.com/oh-wow-check-this-multitouch-interface-with-h http://1001tales.posterous.com/oh-wow-check-this-multitouch-interface-with-h

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Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:13:00 -0700 18 Kinect launch games announced ' an attractive platform for dancing games' - WiredUK http://1001tales.posterous.com/18-kinect-launch-games-announced-an-attractiv http://1001tales.posterous.com/18-kinect-launch-games-announced-an-attractiv
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The list as published:

Kinect Adventures
Kinectimals
Kinect Sports
Kinect Joy Ride
Game Party: In Motion
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved
Dance Central
EA Sports Active 2
The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout
DanceEvolution
Zumba Fitness
MotionSports
Fighters Uncaged
Sonic Free Rider
Get Fit With Mel B
Dance Paradise
Crossboard 7

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