My skull is on fire

Special effects using Kinect, a Mac mini and a Mac pro. Kinect video streams captured by a Mac mini and processed by a Mac Pro. Impressive combination to obtain the burning effect, Matrix effect and more...

Web browsing with the force...

Two new tries of using your gestures and voice to surf the web...

Kinect sensor attached to an autonomous quadrotor

What about to use a kinect device as input sensor to an autonomous quadrotor helicopter? This video shows this idea. The only problem is the relative reduced range of the 3D sensor which will limit the flying altitude with 3D information. In this case it should change to an video based navigation.

Kinect based 3D interface to manipulate 3D objects

Another try to construct a human-computer interface using a Kinect Hack. Here we can see how we can control 3D objects as if we were touching them...

Banana Slapping with a Kinect Hack

This video shows a homemade game emulating the official "stopping ball" game... the only difference is that here you have to slap bananas! Nice Kinect Hack!

First images of two aligned Kinect devices recording a 3D scene

After several people commenting that this was not possible here the first images of two Kinects recording the same scene. We can see that the result is not perfect, and a checker board is required for calibration purposes... but it works!

Visual effect transforming the screen into an elastic rubber band

This is a visual effect (as its author says, a silly special effect) making your screen look elastic. Then you can touch it with your hand and make it vibrate. Nice!

Using Kinect to track your point of view

In this video is used to track your head in front of a monitor. This information can then be used to change the perspective of what you are seeing... like if you were looking out of a window...

amazing!

Interface and 3D video rendered together

In this video we can see how to merge a 3D scene with an interactive panel in real time. Gorgeous KinectHack!

Musical video effects created with Kinect

Kinect depth information is used with a filter on a woman dancing to obtain this spectacular video. New possibilities to the "home video industry".

Awesome!

Particle system that looks like being underwater

Another particle system. If recently we had fire. Now we have water. Amazing!

3d scanner prototype using a Kinect device

First tries to make a 3d scanner prototype using a Kinect device. The idea is to reconstruct the whole 3D mesh and not only the frontal view. However, the prototype is still in its early stages since it just merges different snapshots without correcting the angle.

Surf the web like if you were in the world of Minority Report

In my opinion in, let's say two years, the human-computer interface will be completely different... and this is beginning right now. In this video we can see how gestures captured using the Kinect hack can be mapped to common actions, such as surfing the web. And the interactions look pretty fluid and intuitive...

awesome!

Hand tracking: some special effects

This video may look like another hand tracking experiment using a Kinect hack. It is. However, the responsiveness of the system is very fluid and in the video appear some nice fluid effects on the screen...

Kinect pin-board

This Kinect hack emulates one of the pinboards you could use to make 3D sculptures (which in my case were always an sculpture of either my hand or my face). Now with this hack it is like having a huge pinboard to play with your whole body...

amazing!

Using Kinect to play Super Mario Bros... jump!

Body gestures are recognized and used to control Super Mario Bros running in a PC. As the author says:

Celebrating 25 years of Mario. I programmed it to recognize my motions and passed the virtual button presses to the NES emulator. I could have placed a simulated keypad right in front of me that I can press with my hands, but I thought full body gestures were more in the spirit.

And they are. The chosen gestures are more than adecuate to the game. However I cannot see me playing the difficult levels with this run, jump, run, jump, jump pattern.

Real time fire effect using 3D particle systems and Kinect

This is an awesome example of the real time possibilities of Kinect in creating special effects. Depth information is used to control a particle system simulating fire. The effect is spectacular!

First tries to control FPS with Kinect

Several gamers insist taht Kinect cannot be used to control certain types of games. However the author of this video does not think that way. Here we can see a primitive way of controlling Quake III using a kinect hack. Of course it needs to be polished, but maybe it is not such a bad idea after all.

Amazing!

Using Kinect to apply a real time dynamic focus

In this hack Kinect depth information is used to apply a selective blurring filter to the video stream. The result is similar to the depth of field effect of professional cameras. This opens the doors to all kind of new video filters which use not only the image as input, but also the depth of each pixel.

Robot teleoperation with Kinect Hack

This video shows another amazing possibility of the Kinect device. The video shows in its final part how Kinect can track the operator movements and translate them into a robotic arm. This is still in an early stage of development, but it is already amazing!

Combining Kinect and Wiimote in an interactive 3D construction environment

This video is quite interesting because it integrates several different tools. In one hand it uses the Wii controller as a pointer to draw / construct 3D objects using a set of predefined pieces. It also integrates your image in the 3D environment and allows to rotate the view point in real time.

Amazing Kinect Hack!

Playing with gravity

This is an interactive Kinect Hack. In this case Kinect is used to obtain the silhouette of the users and then this shape is used to interact with a virtual world, in this case just falling 2D blocks. It seems to be just an artistic experiment, but one wonders what can be done using a more elaborated 3d world.

Amazing!

Depth in black and white

The kinect hack is also a new tool for artists. Depth information can be used to achieve all kind of interesting effects. Here we can see a black and white video generated from the depth information obtained from a hacked kinect device.

Amazing!

Two Kinects at the same time

Many people said that I won't be possible to have two Kinect devices working on the same subject at the same time. This conclusion was reasonable since Kinect works projecting a matrix o infrared dots over the surfaces to scan, and if two of them did it at the same time they would mess up with each other.

However, the best way to see it is to try it! And it seems to work. In this video the inputs from the two Kinect devices are superimposed to obtain an impressive animation. Like a mutant!

Amazing!

LedWall controlled by Kinect

In this video we can see how Kinect can be used to control a led wall creating a nice effect. Completely useless but really nice!

With Kinect your body can be a musical instrument

Kinect devices opens the doors to multiple creative possibilities. In this video we can see how the hacked Kinect device can be used as a MIDI controller, transforming your body into a musical instrument!

Amazing!

Interactive Puppet Prototype with Kinect Hack

This is a try to create high-tech Chinese shadows with the Kinect Hack. The Kinect device track the movement of the hands and reproduces it in a colorful 2D projection creating the effect of an interactive puppet.

Amazing!

Hacked iRobot is controlled by a Kinect system

This are the first experiments with the Kinect Sensor in Mobile Robotics. We can see how the sensor is attached to a iRobot so that the robot has access to depth information. In fact it can recognize a human shape and be controlled by gestures.

Amazing!

Kinect Hack makes any surface Multi-Touch

Do you want to have a $150 huge Multi-Touch surface? You only need to have access to this Kinect Hack. It tracks points moving on a given plane, i.e. the surface being monitored, and hence it allows to process these points by any multi-touch software.

Note the huge number possibilities of this Kinect Hack!

Kinect Augmented Reality hack with Doom 3 character

What happens if we take a 3D scene reconstructed with Kinect and insert additional characters? We obtain an amazing Augmented Reality system. In the video you can see how this can be done using one of the characters of the game Doom 3. Nice pet.

Amazing!

Real time lightsaber using Kinect

This is one of the Kinect hacks I like most, up to now. You can see how just using a stick it is possible to emulate Luke Skywalker with your own lightsaber. We have seen things like that before but never so accurate and realistic!

Amazing!

3d boxed reconstruction using Kinect depth information

This Kinect Hack shows another possibility on how reconstructing the 3D scene. In this case the hack uses Kinect depth information a colorful boxed reconstruction with colors mapping the depth of the different blocks.

Amazing Kinect Hack!

Real time morphing using Kinect

Fat Cat from flight404 on Vimeo.

In this Kinect hack the depth information of Kinect is used to first reconstruct the 3D scene which is then processed to obtain a real time morphing. You can transform yourself to look bigger, thiner... note the cat!

Amazing!

Drawing in 3D with Kinect

ofxKinect 3D draw 001 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

In this hack, Kinect is used to track one of the user's hands which is used as 3D pencil. If the two hands are brought to the foreground, the interface rotates the drawing.

Amazing!

Teaching Kinect to recognize objects

This hack also shows some hiden power of Kinect. In this case Kinect hardware is used to take pictures of objects, including depth information. With depth information it is easy to crop and recognize the object in front of the camera.

Amazing!

Laser tracking projection with Kinect and OpenCV

In this hack Kinect is used to create a laser projection over a surface being tracked with Kinect. Once a surface is found every kind of nice laser images can be projected there.

Amazing!

Kinect 3D environment reconstruction

This kinect kack just maps both the image and depth data captured by the Kinect device into a 3d environment. I can envisage applications for this such as next generation video conference services. You can also have a 3D scanner ad home for $150 dollars. Even the game characters can be reconstruction of your own body. Great Kinect Hack!

Amazing!

Kinect Windows 7 Interface

There have been many hacks from Kinect's release. I will be publishing the most amazing of them here, starting with this Kinect hack by Evoluce which maps gestures into the multitouch driver of Windows 7. That is, with this Kinect's hack you can steer most of Windows 7 applications supporting the multitouch interface.

As I said, amazing!

Kinect driver hacked a couple of hours after its release

It all started when electronic company Adafruit Industries offered a $1,000 reward to the first person to build an open-source driver for Kinect. The reward was raised to $3,000 and awarded to Hector, a spanish guy who not even had an xBox.

It took just a couple of hours to have the Kinect hardware hacked. Now the specifications are publicly available and the community has an open driver to play around. Let's see what they can do.

Driver and more info: OpenKinect

Amazing!