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IllumiRoom projects images beyond your TV for an immersive gaming experience
IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept Microsoft Research project designed to push the boundary of living room immersive entertainment by blending our virtual and physical worlds with projected visualizations. The effects in the video are rendered in real time and are captured live — not special effects added in post processing.
IllumiRoom project was designed by:
Brett Jones, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek and Andy Wilson
More info: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/illumiroom/
Nike+ Kinect Training with Shawn Johnson
Software Enables Avatar to Reproduce Our Emotion in Real Time
A virtual character produces the same facial expressions as its user. It makes a video game, chat, or an animated film both fun and fast. Faceshift, an EPFL spin-off, launches its software on the market today. http://www.faceshift.com
Kinect Fusion Coming to Kinect for Windows
Kinect Fusion was first developed as a research project at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, U.K. As soon as the Kinect for Windows community saw it, they began asking us to include it in our SDK. Now, I’m happy to report that the Kinect for Windows team is, indeed, working on incorporating it and will have it available in a future release.
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Fresh Paint
Meet Fresh Paint – a delightfully real and fun painting app for you, and your friends and family. Because, you are creative. We all are. We were born that way. From tiny, jam-slathered fingerprints to the earliest scrawls of a crayon self-expression is a fundamental human urge. Creation is as natural as breathing. It bubbles up in your posts, through doodles, tricked out cars, amazing gardens, or knitted cozies. It longs to get out and onto the canvas of your life. We believe that brilliant, creative ideas can come from anyone, anytime – for within everyone, from moms, to nurses, firefighters, accountants, children and grandparents, there is a creative genius awaiting release. It is time to set your creativity free. Welcome to Fresh Paint – the canvas for your big ideas.
Find out more on:
- http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/fresh-paint/1926e0a0-5e41-48e1-ba68-be35f2266a03
- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/freshpaint/default.html
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/next/archive/2012/08/22/microsoft-reimagines-paint.aspx
- http://teusje.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/microsoft-digital-art-technical-preview/
KinÊtre: A Novel Way To Bring Computer Animations To Life
KinÊtre is a research project from Microsoft Research Cambridge that allows novice users to scan physical objects and bring them to life in seconds by using their own bodies to animate them. This system has a multitude of potential uses for interactive storytelling, physical gaming, or more immersive communications.
Find out more at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/animateworld/
Smart Trashbox
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The V Motion Project
This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live and projected on a huge wall.
We created and designed the live visual spectacle with a music video being produced from the results. We wanted it to be clear that the technology was real and actually being played live. The interface plays a key role in illustrating the idea of the instrument and we designed it to highlight the audio being controlled by the dancer. Design elements like real time tracking and samples being drawn on as they are played all add to authenticity of the performance. The visuals are all created live and the music video is essentially a real document of the night.
Check out the tech behind the project here: custom-logic.com/blog/v-motion-project-the-instrument/
