You guys know the Kinect? That 3d camera thing that's ment to be used on the Xbox - well you don't actually have to have an Xbox to use it. The Kinect comes with a USB adaptor so you can prettymuch just use it on whatever, and tons of people are using it on their PCs with Win/Mac/Linux.
Anyway i'm excited by the buzz in the community, it seems huge, look at all this stuff. I havn't got a Kinect yet, but i'm loving all this stuff that people are making for it. I spent the last few days devouring every entry from the kinecthacks.net blog and here's all the videos that i think are the most awesome. Particularly that one i made pink - it's the best.
Ok here we go, hold onto your TLDR butts:
Augmented Reality
http://kinecthacks.net/interactive-pupp ... th-kinect/ <-- you may have seen this one before
http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-xna-early-prototype/ <-- lol, hey this polish music is pretty good.
http://kinecthacks.net/transform-yourse ... superhero/ <-- ULTRAMAN
http://kinecthacks.net/multiple-reality-acroyoga/ <-- merging scenes
http://kinecthacks.net/multiple-3d-real ... th-kinect/ <-- more merging scenes
http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-titty-tracker/ <-- funny concept, full virtual clothing would be a next step.
http://kinecthacks.net/crazy-dysmorphing-cat/ <-- Real Cat made of marshmellows
http://kinecthacks.net/body-dysmorphic-disorder/ <-- Real Man made of marshmellows
http://kinecthacks.net/air-guitar-kinect-hack/ <-- make your air guitar play a real superimposed guitar
http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-piano/ <-- Giant paino on the floor. Like that old movie with Tom Hanks.
http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-3d-banana-slapping-game/ <-- early dodgeball concept i guess.
Virtual worlds
http://kinecthacks.net/3d-body-tracking ... -accuracy/ <-- punching down virtual walls
http://kinecthacks.net/call-of-duty-fps ... d-wiimote/ <-- Just adds simple leaning, jumping, crouching, and some other gestures into a FPS game. It's good coz it doesn't ruin your aim.
http://kinecthacks.net/extreme-boobie-p ... n-capture/ <-- lol
http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-hack-take ... -in-japan/ <-- wow, the Virtual Reality implications are huge for this. Imagine playing multiplayer sports from a 1st person view (baseball, dodgeball, football, etc) - and being able to read the body language of the other players in-game.
http://kinecthacks.net/mikumikudance-ad ... y-support/ <-- haha, you can tell it's a guy by how the avatar moves.
http://kinecthacks.net/star-wars-on-mars/ <-- mockup of multiplayer gaming, is rough but lots of possabilities.
http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-hologram/ <-- 2 Kinects, telepresence into a virtual world and a virtual camera. Very well done.
<-- the troll with swords (last video) is cool.
http://kinecthacks.net/davinci-touchless-kinect/ <-- fast, simple, intuitive physics sandbox.
http://kinecthacks.net/kinect-sex/ <-- i like where this is going.
Other
http://kinecthacks.net/experimental-3d- ... th-kinect/ <-- early days of Descent 3D map making (note: this kindof mapping technique is called SLAM - Simultaneous localization and mapping)
http://kinecthacks.net/teleoperation-of ... ng-kinect/ <-- control a real humanoid robot, just by moving naturally. It will copy you.
http://kinecthacks.net/controlling-robots-with-kinect/ <-- the famous Willow-Garage robotics team play with Kinect.
http://kinecthacks.net/crazy-head-tracking-androids/ <-- head tracking, gives the illusion of 3D.
http://kinecthacks.net/minority-report- ... or-kinect/
http://kinecthacks.net/convert-monitor- ... uchscreen/
http://kinecthacks.net/our-kinect-dream/ <-- not actually Kinect, it's fictional, but it's aspired to.
