Microsoft Research has really been hard at work with Kinect lately, and here's another one of its experiments.
Here's what MS says about the device: "HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics. A virtual
image of a 3D scene is rendered through a half silvered mirror and spatially aligned with the real-world for the viewer.
"Users easily reach into an interaction volume displaying the virtual image. This allows the user to literally get their hands into the virtual display. A novel real-time algorithm for representing hands and other physical objects, which are sensed by the Kinect inside this volume, allows physically realistic interaction between real and virtual 3D objects."
This comes after MS Research last week showed how the Kinect could be used to turn any surface - from your hand to a wall or desk in front of you - in a touch-screen-style surface.
Fascinating stuff. Now, makes some games with it, MS.
Comments
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Imaduck on 23 Oct '11 said:
Wow
Last line sums it up well though.
Also ......... well, it kind of looks dodgy. That whole fondling motion? "what the hell you up to!? Ah I'm just playing with my balls!" Yeeeeeah, this game needs work.
mrsatan on 23 Oct '11 said:
Pretty cool, still needs some development time as it looks kinda glitchy. If they came up with a better display style for this it could be cool. It's an awkward positioning in how you have to grab below the plane of glass. I can see people pulling a "throw the wiimote" and jerking upwards into the glass.
tmten on 23 Oct '11 said:
Things realised today: -
Kinect is scarily good (actually, I probably already knew that.)
The PC, in all its myriad forms is, and will always be, the second best console. It's easily better than anything from the current gen though.
The ever eroding (in both senses?) cachet of 'Microsoft' is Microsoft's only weakness.
America will out, and no-one, least of all Nintendo, should be surprised.
TOKEN on 24 Oct '11 said:
Imagine a God game like populous or from Dust you are God and using the hand of God mode you could pick up enemys or flick them perform miricles.
Another brain wave how about a Halo game 1st person view using a hologram as a 3d map or even control a ship/mech in holographic 3D.
JAKEevans on 24 Oct '11 said:
Wow.....not the biggest kinect fan in terms of gaming, but gosh darn it the tech itself is brill!
TechnoWolf on 24 Oct '11 said:
Well that was awesome; however with the amount of space and equipment it needs, it's still a little impractical.