XBox Kinect as motion capture (31 posts)

Topic tags: kinect, motion capture
  • Profile picture of Setekh Setekh14p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Hello,

    Maybe some of you heard of people hacking in their xbox 360 kinect console and creating new ways to play their games or interact with reality. Take a look:
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8KVOe_y08[/youtube]

    We can use kinect for motion capture.
    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr8vgCnb9_0[/youtube]

    It will save so much time, and in the time saved we can do more and complex animations.
    Kinect wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect
    Kinect PC Drivers: http://www.openni.org/

    We should totally do it. >.>

    Regards.

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  • Profile picture of erlend_sh erlend_sh132p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Wow, totally awesome. It’s inevitable, I’ll have to cave in and buy a kinect soon. Not that I’m gonna be able to hack it in any way, but I just gotta start getting the feel of this thing if I want to keep referring to myself as an aspiring game designer. Shit .

    Wow#2, affordable motion capture. That is huge. I knew it would come sooner or later, but I didn’t think Microsoft would be the ones to spearhead it (I don’t think they thought so either). Give it a year, and human-skeleton animations might be something anyone can do.

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  • Profile picture of rallu rallu said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Trying to hack something right now. Word of advice: do not buy xbox bundle with kinetic. It has custom plugs and you can’t connect it to a PC.

    I did that mistake. :)

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  • Profile picture of erlend_sh erlend_sh132p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    rallu said:
    Trying to hack something right now. Word of advice: do not buy xbox bundle with kinetic. It has custom plugs and you can’t connect it to a PC.

    I did that mistake. :)

    Ehm, I’m not following at all. I haven’t been keeping up with their product lines. My older brother has an Xbox 360 already. I plan to pump iron all Christmas, overpower him, steal the Xbox and just buy a Kinect for it. Any holes in that plan? Is there some special new Xbox 360 that I don’t know about, that plays more nicely with Kinect?

    Also, check it out everybody, there’s already progress being made with the Ogre format!

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#topic/openni-dev/HEEQBBtgM4M

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  • Profile picture of Setekh Setekh14p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    erlend_sh said:
    Ehm, I’m not following at all. I haven’t been keeping up with their product lines. My older brother has an Xbox 360 already. I plan to pump iron all Christmas, overpower him, steal the Xbox and just buy a Kinect for it. Any holes in that plan? Is there some special new Xbox 360 that I don’t know about, that plays more nicely with Kinect?

    Well there not so much kinect games.. and in order to use a kinect on your xbox u need the new kinect ready xbox 360 slim http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-250GB-Console/dp/B003O6JJKY , tho im not sure if the plugs changed as rallu said.. and its not really hacking.. microsoft allows it. You plug it in ur usb(if it has the usb output) and install the drivers.

    erlend_sh said:
    Also, check it out everybody, there’s already progress being made with the Ogre format!

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#topic/openni-dev/HEEQBBtgM4M

    Thats so awesome. O_O

    I don’t have a kinect myself… just ordered a xbox, the kinect will gonna wait till next year xD

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  • Profile picture of rallu rallu said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    erlend_sh said:
    Is there some special new Xbox 360 that I don’t know about, that plays more nicely with Kinect?

    Yes. They made bundle that’s called Microsoft Xbox 360 S – Kinect Edition which has this custom plug that has power and data going in one cable. So buy separate Kinetic package (made for older xboxes) and everything will be fine.

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  • Profile picture of Setekh Setekh14p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    rallu said:
    Yes. They made bundle that’s called Microsoft Xbox 360 S – Kinect Edition which has this custom plug that has power and data going in one cable. So buy separate Kinetic package (made for older xboxes) and everything will be fine.

    thanks for the quick update rallu!
    So i guess im doing it right xD

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  • Profile picture of rallu rallu said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Official Kinetic drivers has been released:

    http://kinecthacks.net/official-kinect-drivers/

    I think I’m going to start working on getting interface from this to Jme.

    edit: and now that I read the first post I can see that it has link to openni already…

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  • Profile picture of nehon nehon590p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    This is leading to a lot of broken vases,lamps or TVs….

    Imagine a monkey trying to motion capture a round house kick in his living room in front of his kinect….
    Nothing good can come out of this … :p

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  • Profile picture of normen normen1271p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Awesome, was looking for affordable mocap solutions for a long time now.

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  • Profile picture of Setekh Setekh14p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    nehon said:
    This is leading to a lot of broken vases,lamps or TVs….

    Imagine a monkey trying to motion capture a round house kick in his living room in front of his kinect….
    Nothing good can come out of this … :p

    I can, and see actually.. youtube is filled with fails xD

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  • Profile picture of lwsquad lwsquad26p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Wow, really cool stuff! :)

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  • Profile picture of normen normen1271p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    Ok, who writes the jMP plugin for this? :D

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  • Profile picture of Setekh Setekh14p said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    normen said:
    Ok, who writes the jMP plugin for this? :D

    Someone who got a kinect xD
    I’m buying one next month, just to fiddle with it.

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  • Profile picture of normen normen1271p said 1 year, 3 months ago:

    Just heard on the java blog theres now a java API for kinect! Gogogo :D

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