On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Alejandro F. Reimondo <
aleReimondo at smalltalking.net> wrote:

>  Hi Ricardo,
>
> We are also working with Kinect a lot of fun and usefull
>  applications are now possible at low cost.
> We do native interface & computer vision to do shape
>  analysis, and hand tracking in smalltalk.
>

Well, that's *very* interesting. Is your software open source? Is it
available somewhere?


>
> Yesterday I opened a campaign [*] to build software to use
>  kinect device for 3D scanning of models; we are working
>  on that based on our VS frameworks, produced models
>  can be transfered using standard 3D file format.
> The exchange of information between frameworks (low level
>  information from our framework to squeak) in realtime
>  can be realized same way as OpenNI interface is using
>  for skeleton.
>
> In our tests the use of OpenNI produced low response
>  and loose of tracking, that motivated us to exploit
>  low level interface and continue learning the internals
>  and specific conditions of the device and capture
>  process.
>

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.

Cheers
Richo

PS. Good luck with the campaign! I look forward to see what you make :)


> have fun!
> Ale.
>
> [*] http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14424
>     We are still looking for our first donor!
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>
> *To:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>; etoys
> dev <etoys-dev at squeakland.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:04 PM
> *Subject:* [squeak-dev] Kinect and Etoys
>
> Hi guys!
> 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? :)
>
> After seeing Stephen Howell's great work using Kinect with Scratch, we
> followed his steps and made it available for Etoys as well.
> See it for yourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqqaHvbeqg
>
> You can find installation steps in our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira
>
> Cheers!
> Richo
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