Watch the video below to see how two graduate students from Germany use the Kinect to help the blind. Slightly bulky, but so cool in action. What a great example of technology, ingenuity, genuine hearts.
11 July 2011
13 June 2011
Kinect Fun Labs Launched!
Microsoft announced this week the opening of Kinect Fun Labs, an online hub where you can check out all of the newest innovations with Kinect Technology. Download and play any of a collection of mini games that let you visualize music, create your own bobble head, or make any real object virtual. Can't decide? Just download them all, because the best part is: it's all completely FREE.
I can't wait to sign into Xbox live and get started making my own bobblehea... err, doing research on kinect technology for my thesis. Yeah. That's what I meant.
(Even if you don't own a Kinect or even know what one is, be sure and check out the promo video done by none other than Back To The Future's own Christopher Lloyd).
11 June 2011
Wireless Hub, Wiimote-like, Pressure-Sensitive... Watch?
This watch is a motion sensor and connects wirelessly directly to a PC. It's possibilities are nearly endless as there are tools available to integrate specifically with it, including a pulse monitor, pedometer.
23 May 2011
Adaptive Use Musical Instruments
Pauline Oliveros, composer and performer and founder/executive director of the Deep Listening Institute, teamed up with music therapists and music technologists to create software to help the extremely disabled. Adaptive Use Musical Instruments, as it's called, is software written in Max/MSP that allows even persons with extremely limited mobility to create music expressively. Using only the camera embedded on the laptop and no extra hardware, the software turns motion captured to with a laptop into music.
19 May 2011
NIME 2010
A link to our paper from NIME 2010, "Sonic Virtual Reality Game: How does your body sound?"
That's an official publication!
And as a side note, a mocha from the street cafes of Sydney would be divine right now.
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