What Ghosts Taught Me About Design
When I was young, I was fascinated by all things paranormal: ghosts, aliens, conspiracies.https://niklasbarning.de/2025/06/30/what-ghosts-taught-me-about-design/
#Kinect
3D-сканер из датчика Kinect Xbox 360
2009 год. На конференции E3 Стивен Спилберг (да, да — тот самый) вместе с старшим вице-президентом Microsoft Доном Мэттриком (Don Mattrick) презентуют Project Nata. Именно его весь мир узнает как Kinect, сокращение от слов kinetic и connection. Старт продаж был оглушительным, даже в Книгу рекордов Гиннесса попали. Аксессуар для Xbox 360 обещал подарить новый игровой опыт и поэтому многие, не задумываясь, выкладывали за него 149,99 $. С тех пор много воды утекло. Две реинкарнации в виде Kinect for Xbox One и Kinect for Windows в итоге были переведены в статус discontinued. В феврале 2019 года Microsoft представила Azure Kinect уже не как игровой аксессуар, а как продвинутый датчик для разработки приложений всего за 399 $. Спустя четыре года производство было свернуто и корпорация вновь похоронила проект. Но там, где закончилась эта история, пока что есть множество энтузиастов (включая меня), которые по-прежнему используют значительно подешевевшие датчики в своих проектах. В свой очередной поход на барахолку я как раз наткнулся на замечательный экземпляр Kinect Xbox 360, который обошелся мне в смешную сумму 10 €. Я давно хотел пощупать такой девайс, поэтому решил попробовать сделать из него 3D-сканер. Тогда я еще не представлял, насколько этот путь непрост.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/915492/
#kinect #гаджеты #ar #vr #обработка_изображений #железо #компьютерное_железо
Peter Molyneux recently shared his side of the story on how his age-old Kinect game, Project Milo, failed to see the light of day.
#projectmilo #microsoftkinect #projectnatal #kinect
https://thedailyjuice.net/the-fate-of-peter-molyneuxs-kinect-game-project-milo/
Here's what happened to Peter Molyneux's Kinect game Project Milo
The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect
It became clear soon after launch that #Kinect was a terrible device for gaming but a brilliant device for creative technology.
theguardian.com/games/…
Human Trace @zauberpark_zurichairport
🔥🔥🔥 I’m happy to present Human Trace, a digital and interactive installation showcased at the Zauberpark Festival in Zurich!
A big thank you to Noa Art for their invitation and warm welcome! 😊
with the support of wbi @wbi
@vvvv #humantrace #zurich #zauberpark2024 #zauberpark #madewithvvvvgamma #zurichairport #vvvvgamma #interactive #machinelearning #ai #kinect
@jank0 I want computer vision motion controls like the #kinect and #wii to make a comeback. They were unfairly overshadowed by VR and AR hype, but do people really want to wear stuff on their face? NO
So I've just gotten a 2nd hand #xbox360 with #kinect, and I wanted to let my kids experience Kinect Fruit Ninja. Turns out it's not quite possible because Xbox Marketplace has shutdown and there's no physical disc released for the game. Truly "got money also cannot buy". Who would have thought I get to experience another digital obsolescence first hand again!?
The reason we don't have #BigBoxPackaging for #Games anymore is due to #GameConsoles:
With the rise of the #PS2 & #Xbox360, the "#DVD #JewelCase" became the norm and #EconomiesOfScale kicked in.
Also #OnlineStores kicked off and #Retail demanded more efficient #ShelfSpace and was unwilling to accept bigger boxes than for DVDs.
It's the same reason #BluRay, #HDDVD & #HDVMD (LOL!) have almost identical packaging and why we get super cursed packaging like a 24-disc case that is barely triple-wide...
Coming up in 2025: Effortless avateering with #vvvv
#visualprogramming #creativecoding #avateering #tracking #kinect #orbbec #realsense #nuitrack
El 4 de noviembre de 2010, Microsoft saca al mercado el Kinect para el Xbox 360, la línea de sensores de movimiento de cámaras RGB y proyectores infrarrojos para generar mapas de profundidad que permitía al Xbox reconocer movimientos. Fue desarrollado por la compañía israelí PrimeSense
#retrocomputingmx #kinect
New blog post time!
This week's game is Rise of Nightmares, a Sega developed horror game with plenty of first-person slashing and punching as well as a story that goes to ridiculous places. Sounds great, right? There's just one problem: it's controlled with the Kinect!
https://ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/rise-of-nightmares/
Does anyone need to calibrate a first gen #Kinect ?
This could have #alleviated both #apriltag and #kinect s issues
https://github.com/dmcconachie/apriltags_kinect_fusion
Alas it was dropped
#mocap
https://github.com/dmcconachie/apriltags_kinect_fusion
Alas it was dropped
#mocap
@Dr_Muesli
I know.
But it is unable to track rotations and fails with many motions.
Even at its best it still falls behind even the #kinect, and we knew how that turned out.
If I do anything, it should be proper else I'm wasting time I feel
Furthermore camerabased solutions require very ecellent light conditions and especially much room I recon.
These requirements I cannot fullfil.
And also reflection and recording artifacts are a issue.
TL;DR
The resulting motionfiles would have too many artifacts, false positives and require #cleanup lots. Of. Cleanup.
Camera solutions also lack one very crucial ingredient of proper tracking:
#Depth
With stations, imus and the like you have info of "where" in 3d space each element is positioned.
From a #mathmatical standpoint it is a #nocontest
The only alt using 3 cameras in a circle around thr object to record cresting a cylinder of sorts...
But being limited to a certain space yet again
That limitation is what I dislike the most tbh 🙀
(And IK and FK feet n handbones fail hilariously with cameras too.
Its not even funny:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ryXscndoo&t=0s
)
I know.
But it is unable to track rotations and fails with many motions.
Even at its best it still falls behind even the #kinect, and we knew how that turned out.
If I do anything, it should be proper else I'm wasting time I feel
Furthermore camerabased solutions require very ecellent light conditions and especially much room I recon.
These requirements I cannot fullfil.
And also reflection and recording artifacts are a issue.
TL;DR
The resulting motionfiles would have too many artifacts, false positives and require #cleanup lots. Of. Cleanup.
Camera solutions also lack one very crucial ingredient of proper tracking:
#Depth
With stations, imus and the like you have info of "where" in 3d space each element is positioned.
From a #mathmatical standpoint it is a #nocontest
The only alt using 3 cameras in a circle around thr object to record cresting a cylinder of sorts...
But being limited to a certain space yet again
That limitation is what I dislike the most tbh 🙀
(And IK and FK feet n handbones fail hilariously with cameras too.
Its not even funny:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2ryXscndoo&t=0s
)
Yeah, listen to them
forget #kinect
https://docs.k2vr.tech/en/buying-kinect/
I got both versions
(They suck https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFE_d-G1Z5Y&list=PLK4C8g4vpj7WfT3z0037RzrEMwor007EV&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB )
Shame, but the truth.
forget #kinect
https://docs.k2vr.tech/en/buying-kinect/
I got both versions
(They suck https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wFE_d-G1Z5Y&list=PLK4C8g4vpj7WfT3z0037RzrEMwor007EV&index=7&pp=gAQBiAQB )
Shame, but the truth.
However, today my day has also looked like this…
@Dr_Muesli
Yes.
That already exists:
sao.animetheme.com/XR_Animator.html#https://github.com/ButzYung/SystemAnimatorOnline/releases
However, same issue as with #Kinect :
Won't allow rotary movement.
#Cascadeur can use #videoinput..
Same issues
#Dollarsmocap is also #webcam based.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3WZSCVeGblU&list=PLK4C8g4vpj7WfT3z0037RzrEMwor007EV&index=6&pp=iAQB
(The #dancer is having SO much fun !):
Yes.
That already exists:
sao.animetheme.com/XR_Animator.html#https://github.com/ButzYung/SystemAnimatorOnline/releases
However, same issue as with #Kinect :
Won't allow rotary movement.
#Cascadeur can use #videoinput..
Same issues
#Dollarsmocap is also #webcam based.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3WZSCVeGblU&list=PLK4C8g4vpj7WfT3z0037RzrEMwor007EV&index=6&pp=iAQB
(The #dancer is having SO much fun !):
@Dr_Muesli
Yes, wired is the 600 one.
I mostly am not sure about "which one"
I think slimevr \or\ #600 Noitom Perception Neuron
So TL;DR is:
I know all the opotions but each step is another pricey test with unknown outcome
(Atm I have a #kinect and a #kinect v2 which I consider #failures )
Yes, wired is the 600 one.
I mostly am not sure about "which one"
I think slimevr \or\ #600 Noitom Perception Neuron
So TL;DR is:
I know all the opotions but each step is another pricey test with unknown outcome
(Atm I have a #kinect and a #kinect v2 which I consider #failures )
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