KINECTlogy (XBOX KINECT Hack)

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Concept of the Day: KINECTed Conference Project

This innovative project involves the use of sound sensors and of course Microsoft Kinect, one of the most selling consumer electrics gadgets.

Using Kinect, the designers Lining Yao, Anthony DeVincenzi, Ramesh Raskar and Hiroshi Ishii were able to add a number of very impressive features into videoconferencing.



For example, the Freezing Former Frames is a feature that stops the current frame, "freezing" a selected area so the user could finish another task without offending the user on the other end.

Another feature is called Talking to Focus - it identifies the speaker and then blurs out everything in the frame, leaving only a clear image of the speaker

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grabi na ang technology karon dah...mao jud ni gi adopt nila sa Xbox kinect

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German Student's Kinect Hack Allows Seeing Own Skeleton in Real Time




One of the latest and probably the most impressive Kinect hacks is called "Magic Mirror" and it was developed by Tobias Blum.

The program developed by the student from the Technical University of Munich, makes use of augmented reality mixed with "x-ray vision."

The so-called "x-ray vision" does not really peer through the human body in order to show a person's skeleton. Instead it maps an arbitrary skeleton from a computer tomography (CT) scan onto the person's frame.

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Kinect-Controlled Robot Moves Its Arms and Legs and Allows You to See the World with Its Eyes

Last year someone hacked a Microsoft Kinect controller to be able to power the arms of a small human-shaped android. The enterprising hacker is Watani Yohizaki of Asura Engineering decided to go further and used the technology to power not only a robot's arms but legs as well.

He managed to develop the whole control system from scratch (without making use of the previous effort). However, his code relies on the company's V-Sido software.



The key feature of the new improvement lies in the fact that the code allows the robot to automatically regulate its motions in order not to fall (the center of gravity is calculated in real-time).

In addition, it is possible to add cameras to the robot's head, so the user could see the world through the eyes of the small machine

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Doctors Use Microsoft's Kinect in Surgery Rooms to Save Time and Avoid Contamination



A group of surgeons at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto hospital decided to use video game technology in order to save time and avoid contamination in the operating room.

The doctors started using Microsoft's Xbox Kinect to manipulate medical images during operations.

With the help of hands-free gaming console, surgeons use hand gestures in order to zoom in and out and freeze different images without having to leave the operation room.

It is worth mentioning that in order to view MRI or CT images on a computer, doctors have to leave the sterile operation room. According to Dr. Calvin Law, each time a surgeon leaves the operation room to consult an image, they lose 20 minutes. To enter back, they have to go through a scrupulous cleanup to avoid any contamination.

Law, who works as a surgical oncologist with the hospital's gastrointestinal cancer team, was the one who helped integrate Kinect into the operating room.

In addition to saving time, the technology also helps surgeons remain focused and lower the risk of contamination.

It would be interesting to note that the idea to integrate the technology into the operating room came to engineers - Jamie Tremaine, Greg Brigley and Matt Strickland. The latter is also a general surgery resident, working at the University of Toronto. He was the first who decided to do something in order to help surgeons save time when viewing images during surgery.

The console represents a depth camera, being able to see in 3D. It generates a digital skeleton of the patient captured on camera and then tracks the motions of the skeleton. The movements are then translated into commands.

Surgeons already managed to test the new technology during 6 surgeries. According to Law, the team plans to use the gesture-control technology in other parts of the hospital

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Hands-on entertainment: *** firm hacks Microsoft Kinect to create interactive pornography

t really was only a matter of time.
For while Microsoft’s innovative Kinect controller was designed for family fun it has already been hacked so it can be used in a different way entirely: ***.
A firm that makes hardcore interactive pornography has hacked Microsoft’s innovative Kinect controller to create a game where users can pretend to grope women.
Kinect uses a camera and infra-red sensor to detect arm, leg and body movements, instantly translating them into onscreen action.
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Once switched on the infra-red sensor sweeps the room and identifies around 20 different body points on a person. Depending on the game, it translates body movements into action on the screen.
Now thriXXX, a company based in Austria, has developed a demonstration video showing how the controller can be used as part of an interactive *** game.

The video shows players can use their hands to directly ‘interact’ with scantily-clad female characters on screen who squirm around in apparent ecstasy. ThriXXX intends to have controllable male characters in the finished game.

The YouTube video of the game became an internet viral this week before it was taken off the website.
The company, which sells 3D interactive *** games like ‘3D Sexvilla,’ ‘Fetish3D’ and ‘3DLesbian,’’ is just one of the many hackers who have been reprogramming the Kinect device so it can be used in a number of unique – and unsavoury – ways.

Brad Abram, vice president of business development for thriXXX, told ABC: ‘It became another avenue for us to explore the game. We didn't know where this was going to go but publicity yesterday brought our five servers down to their knees.'
Eventually the firm wants the Kinect option to form part of its 3DSexvilla game, which lets players choose avatars for themselves and then select scenes and partners to act out their fantasies.

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His firm intend to have a working version of the game available for download by April next year.
Microsoft said in a statement: ‘This isn't the first example of a technology being used in ways not intended by its manufacturer, and it won't be the last.
‘Microsoft did not authorise or license its technology for this use. Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console and does not allow Adults Only (AO) content to be certified for use on its platform, and would not condone this type of game for Kinect.’
If the game does not get approval from Microsoft to licence the Kinect software, the firm intends to find a loophole to get round it - perhaps by dealing directly with the hardware suppliers.
Pornography and technology have a long history together. Pornography helped VHS win the war with Betamax in the 1970s as it was easier to make and distribute with the format.
And the rapid development of online video on the internet was driven by the urge for consumers to access pornography online.

Source: *** firm hacks Microsoft Kinect to create interactive pornography | Mail Online

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it means dghan na kaau uses ang xbox kinect...

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Virtual Fitting Room for Topshop



A special kiosk for the fitting room was installed at the flagman Topshop store in Moscow at the shopping centre European, 5-8 May 2011.

The virtual fitting room is built on the most sophisticated technologies: augmented reality and Microsoft Kinect. Augmented reality allows the customers to select a garment off the rack without having to try it on physically. As a customer, you see yourself onscreen with a 3D copy of a dress. Kinect allows the user to control the program by simple gestures pushing virtual buttons right in the air.



To activate the program you don’t need special markers: the built-in camera tracks a person’s body and superimposes over it a 3D model of the dress.



A unique feature that allows the customers to watch both the front and the back parts of the dress was deployed in the Topshop fitting room for the first time in the world practice.

We would like to thank Topshop for that great opportunity to demonstrate the prototype of the fitting room in their store to the real customers and to get feedback from the latter.

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Advanced robotic arm control using Kinect



[Ryan Lloyd], [Sandeep Dhull], and [Ruben D'Sa] wrote in to share a robotics project they have been keeping busy with lately. The three University of Minnesota students are using a Kinect sensor to remotely control a robotic arm, but it’s not as simple as it sounds.

Using OpenNI alongside PrimeSense, the team started out by doing some simple skeleton tracking before working with their robotic arm. The arm has five degrees of freedom, making the task of controlling it a bit tricky. The robot has quite a few joints to play with, so the trio not only tracks shoulder, elbow, and wrist movements, but they also monitor the status of the user’s hand to actuate the robot’s gripper.

When everything was said and done, the results were pretty impressive as you can see in the video below, but the team definitely sees room for improvement. Using inverse kinematics, they plan on filtering out some of the joint tracking inaccuracies that occur when the shoulders are moved in a certain way. They also plan on using a robotic arm with even more degrees of freedom to see just how well their software can perform.