Before I begin let me give you a little background. About a month ago we decided to try and create NUI (Natural User Interface) or Kinect controls for Angry Birds. Partially as a learning experience but also as proof of concept that games like Angry Birds (ex. applications that lend…
Anthropometry (Greek anthropos (άνθρωπος – "man") and metron (μέτρον – "measure") therefore "measurement of man") refers to the measurement of the human individual. Ask any Kinect developer what the hardest problem is developing a game or application that uses the Kinect – or any other depth camera.…
I managed make it out to Seattle this year for Gamefest and figured I’d share my thoughts on some of the different presentations I saw. They are not available yet, but it looks like Microsoft is going to be posting the slides/audio for the different presentations here soon.…
Last week we were sitting around the office wondering if it would be possible to place ourselves in a game world with Autodesk’s Project Photofly. How cool would that be? We thought we might be able to scan one of us in a T-pose and then use Mixamo’s…
Back in April I wrote a short post about Activate3D releasing 1.0 of ICM, but unlike the 0.8 alpha version the 1.0 did not ship with a community version. Well today I’m happy to say we’ve released a new 1.1 version with a community…
Preface The first time I stepped in front of a depth camera was almost a year ago now. We had a reference version of a PrimeSense camera that is heavily related to the final hardware that went into Kinect. The first thing I got to do was make a stick…