<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Alejandro F. Reimondo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aleReimondo@smalltalking.net">aleReimondo@smalltalking.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Ricardo,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">We are also working with Kinect</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> a lot of fun and usefull</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> applications are now possible at low
cost.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">We do native interface & computer vision
to do shape</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> analysis,</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> and hand tracking in smalltalk</font><font size="2" face="Arial">.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, that's *very* interesting. Is your software open source? Is it available somewhere?</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Yesterday I opened a campaign [*] to build
software to use</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> kinect device for 3D scanning of models; we
are working</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> on that based on our VS frameworks, produced
models</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> can be transfered using standard 3D file
format</font><font size="2" face="Arial">.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">The exchange of information between frameworks (low
level</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> information from our framework to squeak) in
realtime</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> can be realized</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> same way as OpenNI interface is using</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> for skeleton.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">In our tests the use of OpenNI produced low
response</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> and loose of tracking, that motivated us to
exploit</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> low level interface and continue learning the
internals</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> and specific conditions of the device and
capture</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> process.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For what I've seen OpenNI response time and precision is quite acceptable (if you can live without finger precision, of course). It works well even using OSC. I thought it wouldn't work at all and I would need to use FFI to access the libraries, but I was wrong.</div>
<div> </div><div>Cheers</div><div>Richo</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Good luck with the campaign! I look forward to see what you make :)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">have fun!</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Ale.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">[*] <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14424" target="_blank">http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14424</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> We are still looking for our
first donor!</font></div>
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<div style="font:10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial;background:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="richi.moran@gmail.com" href="mailto:richi.moran@gmail.com" target="_blank">Ricardo
Moran</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org" href="mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org" target="_blank">The general-purpose Squeak
developers list</a> ; <a title="etoys-dev@squeakland.org" href="mailto:etoys-dev@squeakland.org" target="_blank">etoys dev</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:04
PM</div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> [squeak-dev] Kinect and
Etoys</div>
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<div>Hi guys!</div>
<div>I want to tell you some exciting news. Thanks to the ESUG Innovation
Technology Awards we've been able to buy ourselves a Microsoft Kinect. We
don't have a Xbox 360 yet, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun
with it. Who needs and Xbox if you can use Kinect with Etoys? :)</div>
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<div>After seeing Stephen Howell's great work using Kinect with Scratch, we
followed his steps and made it available for Etoys as well. </div>
<div>See it for yourselves: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqqaHvbeqg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqqaHvbeqg</a></div>
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<div>You can find installation steps in our blog: <a href="http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira" target="_blank">http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira</a></div>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
<div>Richo</div>
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