Kinect Hacks: Turn Any Surface Into a Multitouch Playground

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Kinect Hacks: Turn Any Surface Into a Multitouch Playground

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Kinect Hacks: Turn Any Surface Into a Multitouch Playground
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"We love hacking communities. It hasn’t even been two weeks since the Kinect officially launched in the United States, and already drivers are in the wild"

Kinect is up and running on Macs and PCs doing a little mid-air multitouch. Another development team has taken the next step with multi-touch: with the combination of a Kinect and a projector, they’ve successfully used the Kinect to turn any surface into a multi-touch interface.

The development team have a pretty complex array of gear running to define a plane and a polygon boundary area for the video projector and Kinect to work together. Once they map a set of coordinates recorded by the Kinect onto the coordinates from the projector, the system’s calibrated and multi-touch ready.



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Another multi touch kinect hack.

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this stuff is to cool
even if i dont like ti for the 360 (and wont have it on a 360, see this thread http://www.robinhoodsplayground.com/for ... 32&t=14307" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)
i think its going to great to play with on the pc :D
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combine this with halographic tv

http://robinhoodsplayground.com/forum/v ... 17&t=14198

and welcome to the start of amazing times ahead,and the next thing we need is the "hard light laser" to add the touch/feel factor ;),combine this with the increasing speed of high speed internet and a hover modual you never need to go out again. :geek:
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tonyuk73 wrote:welcome to the start of amazing times ahead,and the next thing we need is the "hard light laser" to add the touch/feel factor ,combine this with the increasing speed of high speed internet and a hover modual you never need to go out again.
i think i just died and went to heaven :D
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CoFree wrote:
tonyuk73 wrote:welcome to the start of amazing times ahead,and the next thing we need is the "hard light laser" to add the touch/feel factor ,combine this with the increasing speed of high speed internet and a hover modual you never need to go out again.
i think i just died and went to heaven :D
haha

me 2 lol

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