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Kinect İle 3D Görüşmeler

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The vital individuals and communities in first Kinect hack below:

November 2010, after Kinect have been introduced as a motion-controllor for Miccrosoft's Xbox consoles, it's not only arose attention from gamers, but also seen as important for many programmers, artists and entrepreneur who wanted to transfer this new technology beyond gaming use only. As they noticed the benefits of Kinect's Low price and the code to control the motion-capture devices allowed it to be used with a PC rather than the Xbox console. 

The first attempt to hack the control system for the kinect badge was Kick-started by Adafruit, a hobbyist-focused electronics company based in new york, provided 1000 dollars on 4 November to the first person to produce control soft-ware, as drivers(code in open-source format) for Kinect. It added the bonus to 3000 dollars after Microsoft declared it did not condone the reverse-engineering of its motion controller. Within days a developer in Spain posted video demonstrating that he made his Kiinect work with a P.C OpenKinect refined and spread the open-sourse driver code, and a variety of "Kinect hacks" as they came to be called, spread in Youtube videos. The Adafruit bounty was won by hacker Hector Martin, who was the first to produce drivers and make them available for others to download and improve. 

At the time, Theo Watson, a british artist and programmer and his wife, Emily Gobeille, poster their video, in which her hand movements were captured by a Kinect and translated onto a screen displaying a computer-generated bird figure, which she controlled like a high-tech puppet.

In December 2010, Microsoft's partner PrimeSense, an Israeli company that created the Kinect 3-D depth sensing chip, released its own set of software drivers and code for the so-called hacker to monkey with. A few months later, Microsoft announced it would release its own code kit. 

Reference:

Walker, B. (2012) Freaks, Geeks and Microsoft How Kinect Spawned a Commercial Ecosystem The new York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/magazine/how-kinect-spawned-a-commercial-ecosystem.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

waaaaaat? 

can't tell if there are pre-arranged bits to this, but this guy (DJ? dancer? MC? player? Crosses some definitions, not sure what to call him) had it pretty dialed in.

For those of you who don't wanna follow the source link and figure out what's going on, some smart kids in Germany hooked up 2 Microsoft Kinects with Ableton Live and some secret custom software sauce which provides visual feedback and control, on top of a trippy interactive music video. Pretty much you can make your own whomp-whomp-whomp action and a custom music video by shaking your hands/feet/butt and spinning around.

The V Motion Project proves that the Xbox Kinect is not only to play games but can create music by body movements. This video is amazing and gives me goosebumps! The song is "Can't Help Myself".

Hacking the Kinect - Rushmore Cont...

Here is a 3D version of our Mount Rushmore model created using the scanned data from the Kinect and then edited in 3ds Max (actually a lot harder than it sounds)

First step was to find a computer with 3ds Max actually installed on it. That took the best part of an hour, but when we finally did (4th floor RLB) we got cracking on with a cheeky tutorial we’d found on how to create a “3D mountain in 3ds Max”

http://www.polygonblog.com/3d-mountain/

At least that was the plan, but it turns out the computers in RLB just don’t cut the mustard and crashed every time we tried to save due to lack of RAM. So we couldn’t export it after an hour of working on, what I thought was a pretty realistic looking mountain! In the end we saved the 3ds file and rendered it out later on a better computer.

Once this was done we imported our cheeky faces onto the mountain and Voila! This exercise was a lot more strenuous than I thought it would be setting out, but left me with a overwhelming sense of pride at the finished result.