Interesting shadow puppet experiment using Kinect hack
You can probably do more than you think using the new Kinect for XBox 360. Here’s a quick evidence from Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson who connected it to a laptop by using the libfreenect Kinect drivers and ofxKinect. “The openFrameworks system tracks the elbow, wrist, thumb, and tips of the fingers to map a skeleton onto the movement and posture of an animated puppet.”
Interactive Puppet Prototype with Xbox Kinect from Theo Watson on Vimeo.
