FX Experimentation with Xbox Kinect
Have an Xbox Kinect all wrapped up and waiting to go under the tree? Trapcode's Peder Norrby got his earlier this month and is already "experimenting with displaying polygons based on the depth-map" in real time. He used used ofxKinect and openFrameworks to create his projections, which he's offering to run at any local artist's performance (read: Stockholm, Sweden) for "a few beers."
Polygonect from Peder Norrby on Vimeo.
San Francisco's Gray Area Foundation for the Arts goes so far as to predict that "2011 will go down as the year that transforming your body into binary code went mainstream." They had Robert Hodgin (aka Flight404) create some Kinect art for their Web site.
Flight404's Vimeo channel has even more freakishly wonderful Kinect-created videos. Which has me thinking: can a whole new set of body-based motion plug-ins be far off? If there's a Kinect in your kids' future, by all means, give it a test run while you still can. You never know what you'll come up with.
Invisibility from flight404 on Vimeo.
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