I came across the following video on a post on the Creative Applications blog about the Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille's recent work with OpenFrameworks, Kinect, and an interactive puppet prototoype:
Interactive Puppet Prototype with Xbox Kinect from Theo Watson on Vimeo.
I'm not surprised that Theo Watson and Emily (design.io) decided to experiment with the XBox Kinect. I can't wait to see what they will create for Kinect in the future, based on their previous work -- A couple of years ago I wrote a post about their enchanting interactive installation, "Funky Forest": OpenFrameworks & Interactive Multimedia: Funky Forest Installation for CinKid.
You can see from the video of their Funky Forest installation (2007 CinKid) that they create engaging interactive applications:
Funky Forest - Interactive Ecosystem from Theo Watson on Vimeo.
(Information from Theo Watson's Vimeo site)
"Funky Forest is a wild and crazy ecosystem where children manage the resources to influence the environment around them. By using their bodies or pillow "rocks" and "logs", water flowing from the digital stream on the floor can be dammed and diverted to the forest to make different parts grow. If a tree does not receive enough water it withers away but by pressing their bodies into the forest children create new trees based on their shape and character. As children explore and play they discover that the environment is inhabited by a variety of sonic life forms and creatures who appear and disappear depending on the health of the forest. As the seasons change the creatures also go through a metamorphosis."
Credits:
Theodore Watson
Emily Gobeille
Project Page:
muonics.net/site_docs/work.php?id=41
zanyparade.com/v8/projects.php?id=12
Note: A version of Funky Forest, Moomah Edition, is permanently installed in New York City at the Moomah Children's Cafe. This version includes interactive environments related to the four seasons of the year, including an interactive particle system with falling leaves and snow.
FOR THE TECH-CURIOUS
Libfreenect for OX, by Theodore Watson
XBox Kinect running on OS X ( with source code ) from Theo Watson on Vimeo.
The following information and links were taken from the Vimeo description of the above video:
"This is a port/adaptation of Hector Martin's libfreenect for OS X made by Theodore Watson.
Hector Martin's Libfreenect project page is here: git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git
Most of the code is unchanged but there are some changes to libusb which was needed to get it running (and a few extra libusb commands) as well as some tweaking of the transfer sizes.
It should be self contained and you shouldn't need to install libusb (the app links it directly ).
Grab the Source Code:
UPDATE:
(Tested on OS X 10.6.3 - 32bit now and with fixes)
theo.tw/deliver/kinect/001-libfreenect-modded-osx-updated.zip
ofxKinect for OF users - thanks Dan!
openframeworks.cc/forum/viewtopic.php?p=24948#p24948
Tips:
- Try both usb ports.
- Try not to have too many other devices plugged in (or any)."
(Check the Vimeo website to see if there are updates)
OpenFrameworks Forum
http://www.openframeworks.cc/forum/
RELATED
Presentation about Funky Forest (ThisHappened)
Emily Gobeille & Theo Watson talk about Funky Forest from This happened – Utrecht on Vimeo.
Cross-posted on the TechPsych blog.
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Nov 20, 2010
Nov 13, 2010
HACKED KINECT MULTITOUCH using libFreenect and libTISCH (via Florian Echtler)
MULTI-TOUCH WITH HACKED KINECT
Here is NUI-Group member Florian Echtler's proof-of-concept HD video of using a hacked Kinect camera for multitouch-like interaction. The application was built on Ubuntu Linux written using libfreenect, by marcan42 and Florian's creation, libTISCH.
Florian decided to use picture-browsing interaction to demonstrate proof-of concept, so "everybody can focus on more interesting things :-)"
(I have SO many ideas for this! I'll throw a few out there in an upcoming post....maybe someone can run with them!)
RELATED
Hacked Kinect taught to work as multitouch interface
Paul Miller, engadget, 11/11/10
FOR THE TECH-CURIOUS:
TISCH stands for Tangible Interactive Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans, and is a cross-platform, cross device multi-touch development framework. You can download the source package for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux from the TISCH Sourceforge website. The Ubantu Lucid/Karmac version has "superquick installation via PPA" - the instructions can be found on the TISCH Sourceforge website.
LibFreenect- Open Source PC Drivers for Kinect
Xan Tium, XBLOG 360 11/10/10
Marcan is Hector Martin Cantero, the author of the Abort, Retry, Hack? blog.
For your convenience, I've reposted something I wrote about libTISCH back in 2009:
Here is NUI-Group member Florian Echtler's proof-of-concept HD video of using a hacked Kinect camera for multitouch-like interaction. The application was built on Ubuntu Linux written using libfreenect, by marcan42 and Florian's creation, libTISCH.
Florian decided to use picture-browsing interaction to demonstrate proof-of concept, so "everybody can focus on more interesting things :-)"
(I have SO many ideas for this! I'll throw a few out there in an upcoming post....maybe someone can run with them!)
RELATED
Hacked Kinect taught to work as multitouch interface
Paul Miller, engadget, 11/11/10
FOR THE TECH-CURIOUS:
TISCH stands for Tangible Interactive Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans, and is a cross-platform, cross device multi-touch development framework. You can download the source package for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux from the TISCH Sourceforge website. The Ubantu Lucid/Karmac version has "superquick installation via PPA" - the instructions can be found on the TISCH Sourceforge website.
LibFreenect- Open Source PC Drivers for Kinect
Xan Tium, XBLOG 360 11/10/10
Marcan is Hector Martin Cantero, the author of the Abort, Retry, Hack? blog.
For your convenience, I've reposted something I wrote about libTISCH back in 2009:
For techies (and the tech-curious) who like technologies that support collaboration and multi-touch interaction, this is great news!
Florian Echtler announced the first stable releas of libTISCH, a multi-touch development framwork, which can be found on Sourceforge. TISCH stands for Tangible Interaction Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans. libTISCH, a C++ software framework, is included in this project. It provides a means for creating GUIs based on multi-touch and/or tangible input devices.
Here is how it works:
Here is information from libTISCH announcement:
Highlights of this release are, among others, the following features:
- ready-to-use multitouch widgets based on OpenGL
- reconfigurable, hardware-independent gesture recognition engine
- support for widely used (move, scale, rotate..), pre-defined gestures
as well as custom-defined gestures
- hardware drivers for FTIR, DI, Wiimote, DiamondTouch..
- TUIO converters: source and sink
- cross-platform: Linux, MacOS X, Windows (32 and 64 bit)
- cross-language: C++ with bindings for C#, Java, Python
libTISCH has a lot to offer for the multitouch developer. For example,
- ready-to-use multitouch widgets based on OpenGL
- reconfigurable, hardware-independent gesture recognition engine
- support for widely used (move, scale, rotate..), pre-defined gestures
as well as custom-defined gestures
- hardware drivers for FTIR, DI, Wiimote, DiamondTouch..
- TUIO converters: source and sink
- cross-platform: Linux, MacOS X, Windows (32 and 64 bit)
- cross-language: C++ with bindings for C#, Java, Python
libTISCH has a lot to offer for the multitouch developer. For example,
the textured widgets enable rapid development of applications for many
kinds of multi-touch or tangible interfaces. The separate gesture
recognition engine allows the translation of a wide range of highly
configurable gestures into pre-defined or custom events which are then
acted on by the widgets. While the lower layers of libTISCH provide
functionality similar to tbeta, touche etc. (you can interface existing
TUIO-based software with libTISCH in both directions), it goes far
beyond.
More information about the library and underlying architecture can be found on http://tisch.sf.net/ and in the Sourceforge wiki at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/
kinds of multi-touch or tangible interfaces. The separate gesture
recognition engine allows the translation of a wide range of highly
configurable gestures into pre-defined or custom events which are then
acted on by the widgets. While the lower layers of libTISCH provide
functionality similar to tbeta, touche etc. (you can interface existing
TUIO-based software with libTISCH in both directions), it goes far
beyond.
More information about the library and underlying architecture can be found on http://tisch.sf.net/ and in the Sourceforge wiki at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/
Note:
Dr. Florian Echtler is on the scientific staff at the Technisch Universitat Munchen in Germany. Be sure to check out his webpage.
I especially like the concept of the MeTaTop: "A Multi-Sensory Table Top System for Medical Procedures" that is linked from Florian's website.
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