PONK: Touchless Air Hockey, with Kinect + Flash, Groovy ’80s Neon Graphics
Enough gimmick. Let’s get down to serious business, the stuff that illuminates our life and gives us a deeper sense of humanity. Yes, I mean air hockey. Yes, I’m dead serious. (Hey, I’m a fan.) In a...
View ArticleDancing in Point Clouds: unnamed soundsculpture, Making Of, and Human Element...
Like an animated equivalent of the Transporter on Star Trek, depth-sensing cameras and custom code can transform the human body into 22,000 points, then back again into something our mind again...
View ArticleColor and Light: Gestures Manipulate Music, RGB Lights [Ableton + Kinect]
Motion, light & sound / Kinect & Madlight from things happen on Vimeo. In a teaser video just released by Spain’s Things Happen, a silhouetted performer uses arm position to sweep through RGB...
View ArticleNew Kinect Gets Closer to Your Body [Videos, Links]
The new, svelte-looking Kinect. It’s not that it looks better, though, that matters: it’s that it sees better. Courtesy Microsoft. It’s a new world for media artists, one in which we look to the latest...
View ArticleBiostagog: Fluid Cellular Architecture Combines Mapping, Responsive...
BIOSTAGOG from Platige Image on Vimeo. When futurists dream of fluid architecture, more digital image than brick and mortar, this is one element of what they mean. From Warsaw, Poland comes a project...
View ArticleDance and Music: Convert Kinect to MIDI, Free Beta on Mac and Windows
When we first saw movements and dance converted to music in February, it must have sparked some interest. Developer Jesper Nordin tells us popular demand has prompted him to release a free (as in...
View ArticleThe Magic of the New Kinect is in the Hardware; Great Reading on the Specifics
Kinect One (which is actually Kinect 2). Image courtesy Microsoft. After years of frustration with computer vision on general-purpose computers, the upcoming second-generation Kinect sensor really does...
View Article“Open” Kinect Tools Go Closed and Dead, Limiting Artist and Hacker Options;...
The narrative around Kinect and how hackers and artists has always been a little oversimplified. You may have heard something like this: thanks to a bounty, creative individuals “hacked” Microsoft’s...
View ArticlePONK: Touchless Air Hockey, with Kinect + Flash, Groovy ’80s Neon Graphics
Enough gimmick. Let’s get down to serious business, the stuff that illuminates our life and gives us a deeper sense of humanity. Yes, I mean air hockey. Yes, I’m dead serious. (Hey, I’m a fan.) In a...
View ArticleDancing in Point Clouds: unnamed soundsculpture, Making Of, and Human Element...
Like an animated equivalent of the Transporter on Star Trek, depth-sensing cameras and custom code can transform the human body into 22,000 points, then back again into something our mind again...
View ArticleColor and Light: Gestures Manipulate Music, RGB Lights [Ableton + Kinect]
Motion, light & sound / Kinect & Madlight from things happen on Vimeo. In a teaser video just released by Spain’s Things Happen, a silhouetted performer uses arm position to sweep through RGB...
View ArticleNew Kinect Gets Closer to Your Body [Videos, Links]
It’s a new world for media artists, one in which we look to the latest game console news because it impacts our art-making tools. And so it is that, along with a new Xbox, Microsoft has a new Kinect....
View ArticleBiostagog: Fluid Cellular Architecture Combines Mapping, Responsive...
BIOSTAGOG from Platige Image on Vimeo. When futurists dream of fluid architecture, more digital image than brick and mortar, this is one element of what they mean. From Warsaw, Poland comes a project...
View ArticleDance and Music: Convert Kinect to MIDI, Free Beta on Mac and Windows
When we first saw movements and dance converted to music in February, it must have sparked some interest. Developer Jesper Nordin tells us popular demand has prompted him to release a free (as in beer)...
View ArticleThe Magic of the New Kinect is in the Hardware; Great Reading on the Specifics
After years of frustration with computer vision on general-purpose computers, the upcoming second-generation Kinect sensor really does begin to look like a breakthrough. And that breakthrough happens...
View Article"Open" Kinect Tools Go Closed and Dead, Limiting Artist and Hacker Options;...
The narrative around Kinect and how hackers and artists has always been a little oversimplified. You may have heard something like this: thanks to a bounty, creative individuals “hacked” Microsoft’s...
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