Tag Archives: Kinect

Minority Report Interface Using Kinect

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

The movie Minority Report is often cited as an example and an inspiration for augmented reality. The Microsoft Kinect is bringing that movie magic to the living room. It uses the Kinect sensor from Microsoft, and the recently released libfreenect driver for … Continue reading →

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Predator Invisibility and Ghost Furniture with Kinect

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

When writing The Digital Sea, invisibility was one of the cool effects I thought was possible with ubiquitous augmented reality. I didn’t expect to see tangible examples so soon. Granted, without AR glasses, all the effects are static on the screen and only … Continue reading →

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Kinect Green Screen

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

The Kinect has become the all-in-one sensor bar of choice for modders everywhere. The ability for the Kinect to do facial and gesture recognition, sensing 3D under any ambient light condition, combined with a rapidly expanding hacker tools, has made … Continue reading →

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Kinect Unleashed – Not Just For XBox Anymore

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

While Microsoft denies that the Xbox has been hacked, pure semantics I tell you, the new Kinect system has been unleashed for uses other than the ones planned by the giant of the redwoods. Adafruit Industries offered a $3,000 prize which was … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality’s Console Upgrade

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Tom Carpenter

I’ve been watching the news from E3 with keen interest. First off, I’m a gamer, if you can’t tell. But I’m also wildly curious how augmented reality will shape the future of gaming. Now I haven’t seen any games that … Continue reading →