Kinect Fusion

An awesome project from the Microsoft Cambridge group looking at creating nice high resolution models of a user’s environment by simply waving the Kinect around the scene.

SideBySide

A fun project from Disney Research that explores how users can interact with content collaboratively. They use a custom made hybrid infrared camera and pico projector which can project and sense IR tracking markers. Now we just need some bright pico projectors!

Femto-Photography

Videos and explanation start at 20:15.

Pretty neat stuff on super high speed photography. By capturing a trillion frames per second, they can see how light moves through a variety of surfaces. They build custom camera equipment which is modified from instruments used in chemistry labs for high-speed data acquisition. The technique Raskar is referring to uses high-speed flashes to separate the direct and global lighting. It looks especially cool when you see how light passes through the bell pepper due to sub-surface scattering.

Projecting a Holodeck

 

Here is a fun video Sony is using to market the Sony Video store. You are looking at a 2D video taken of virtual 3D content projected on physical objects (e.g. tables, couches, walls). The visuals are displayed from the perspective of a video camera that is tracked in real-time. The visuals would probably look a little odd if you were sitting on the couch. Try and spot the guys wearing the white CG suits.

Code Space: Touch + Air Gesture Hybrid Interactions for Supporting Developer Meetings

A really nice summary of what is possible with gesture for collaboration. I’d love to see what this looks like pushing the tertiary display idea. Combine this with LightSpace and show us the future.

Kinect Vision of the Future

Microsoft released a promotional video about the future of Kinect style interfaces. (found through Johnny Chung Lee’s blog).

LitTree

I’ve seen numerous tree/plant projection mapping pieces. This is by far one of the coolest. Done by Kimchi and Chips.

“A small potted tree has a perpetual conversation with people. Through the use of video projection, a tree is augmented in a non-invasive way, enabling the presentation of volumetric light patterns using itʼs own leaves as voxels (3D pixels).”

Xpaaand

Flexible displays are coming, new OLED displays like in Samsung’s OLED display coming out in 2012.

Here is a cool future application of flexible/expandable displays featured at CHI 2011.

 

OmniTouch

Chris Harrison continues to be awesome. A followup to Skinput using a Kinect sensor for finger touch detection. Read more on his website.

Bringing Toys To Life: Intel Labs OASIS Project

This is a cool video from research scientist Beverly Harrison and company working on the OASIS (Object-Aware Situated Interactive System) project at Intel Labs. They recently gave a demo of the project at CES this year featuring a Kinect style camera and projector.

Via RGBDVision:

“OASIS is a flexible software architecture that enables us to prototype applications that use depth cameras and underlying computer vision algorithms to recognize and track objects and gestures, combined with interactive projection. Here we show OASIS in an interactive Lego playing scenario.”