Technology v. Fashion, Mind Controlled Dress

Technology v. Fashion. Why not a mind-controlled dress that rearranges itself? And it exist in did, fashion designer Nange Magro with passion for electronic garments and latex presented in her futuristic collection Mechapolypse a mind controlled reactive dress. More in specific, as Nange Magro explains, 'the project Mechapolypse is about a dress that lights up and changes shape depending on the level of brain concentration.'

Augmented Shadow

Augmented Shadow is installation by Joon Moon who is using tangible objects in a new and poetic way, by elaborating on the fact that shadows present distorted silhouettes depending on the light.

Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains

This talk is as "water on my mill". According to neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert : the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. Follow his convincing arguments on TED.

New Kinect hack: The virtual guitar

This Kinect hack is a fully functional virtual guitar on the screen. Written in c++ using openFrameworks and openCV for image processing. Using the ofxKinect addon and the libfreenect. More info via hack's autor: Chris Oshea

How does the augmented reality work?

Jack Graham as part of a series on augmented reality explaining the details via Latitude Research.
(Image courtesy of daisy’s flickr)

Interactive Puppet Prototype with Kinect

Concept and Production by Design I/O; Emily Gobeille - Theo Watson
"The system is doing skeleton tracking on the arm and determining where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is, using it to control the movement and posture of the giant funky bird" via: Theo Watson on vimeo

Predator Outdoes Kinect At Object Recognition.

Predator created by of Zdenek Kalal as part of his PhD project using nothing but software and standard video cameras . The code is in C and based on MatLab. Predator uses a single function from the OpenCV library and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux!! The software has now been released under a GPL open source licence.

Hans Rosling's visualisation of statistics

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
The software: www.gapminder.org

Sensorial experience, Hiroaki Umeda.

Hiroaki Umeda is a pluridisciplinary artist : choreographer, dancer, sound, image and lighting designer. His work is both minimal and radical, subtle and violent, and is created to be “experienced”. More info via triangulationblog.com

Music for Flesh

'Music for Flesh I' is a solo piece for augmented muscles sounds
(Xth Sense Biosensing Wearable Technology) by Marco Donnarumma aka TheSAD an Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Composer and Performer. Presentation 01/03 at 21:00 and 02/03 at 01:00 at Alison House, Nicholson Square, Edinburgh. Demo video: http://vimeo.com/18846577
Information about the project: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/blog/

Kinect + OpenNI = Natural Interaction

"PrimeSense Establishes the OpenNI Standard and Developers Initiative to Bring the World of Natural Interaction to Life
Consortium acts as incubator and community encouraging developers to design, develop, experience and interact to drive the future of Natural Interaction" more info via: http://www.openni.org/
Examples of use OpenNI together which Kinect:
OpenNI with Kinect in Windows 7
MikuMikuDance with OpenNI (Kinect) test
also example with PSDK 5.0 sensor from PrimeSense
OpenNI-compliant real time skeleton tracking by PrimeSense
+ more in
OpenNi gallery

Kinect Hand Detection

Systems Robotics Engineer Garratt Gallagher has released a video att CSAIL where he plucks images from a reel he drags onto the screen, then enlarges, spins and casts the pictures aside a la Minority Report.. It uses the Kinect sensor from Microsoft, and the recently released libfreenect driver for interfacing with the Kinect in linux. The graphical interface and the hand detection software were written at MIT. Via: csail.mit.edu

Microsoft Kinect (Xbox 360) Teardown

Bill Detwiler at TechRepublic looking at the hardware inside Kinect.

Kinect Open Source Driver Released

Tre hours after European launch of the Kinect, Hector Martin released open source driver for Kinect with code on Marcansoft (video on YouTube). Another competitor AlexP from the NUI Group "hacked" Microsoft's Kinect earlier this week. However, the release of the open source driver from NUI Group will be available for the public after they collect $10K in donations. Read the whole story on tomshardware.com or techspot.com

Syzygryd's FIRE needs your help!

Watch the video and get inspired.
Syzygryd is an interactive, collaborative musical instrument and fire sculpture
I they manage to pull this project they promise to release:
* Open-source collaborative grid sequencer in processing 

* Open-hardware AVR-based DMX to LED controller with relay control for flame effects and open-source firmware 

* CC licensed sets of sounds for Ableton Live and much more.
Check the project website www.kickstarter.com

Body Navigation

"Body Navigation" is a dance installation by Recoil Performance Group, during Spring 2008 based on Infrared Tracking and Interactive Video Projection: Ole Kristensen and Jonas Jongejan
choreography: Tina Tarpgaard, music:Mathias Friis-Hansen and György Ligeti, performed by Athelas Sinfonietta . Full documentation and trailer at Vimeo. More info at 3xw.ole.kristensen

Gesture-controlled hologram

LM3LABS has created gesture controlled Hologram system called AirStrike, which is controlled by arms and hands movements . More about the holograms via greatdance.com

The EyeWriter on Instructables

I previously mention EyeWriter in the "The EyeWriter /inspiration to share". The information on haw to build this eye-tracking apparatus is available on Instructables which is grate place to search for technical solutions of all kind.

Low-Cost Multi-touch displays

Johnny Chung Lee present video tutorial on how to create low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point tablet displays.

Augmented reality: "Magic Projection"

"Magic Projection" created by Marco Tempest using OpenFrameworks, PS3 Eye Toy camera, IR tracking (with M12 IR filter modifications by Nolan from PeauProductions) and markers along with OpenCV, Arduino, MacCam, Wii engineering, MacBook Pro and a mobile projector.