It’s a game within a game.
Inception-esque work – just wish I’d seen it before the match last night.
Brilliant BoingBoing video which reminds you what it’s like to die in old computer games.
All set to an 8-bit Mad World.
Fab.
Experience the game as Mario sees it.
Nintendo should make this.
Quality.
Amazing trailer for Dead Island.
Made me feel quite emotional.
Brilliant poke at the first person shooter genre ruled by Call of Duty.
Rank Up!
Gnop Gnop Modifiers from My Static Self on Vimeo.
Lovely depth gaming showing possible modifiers for Gnop Gnop to change up the gameplay periodically. The current modifiers are ball split, ball enlarge, and ball shrink for some added difficulty.
I think this is massive.
The technology itself that opens up lots of opportunities and fundamentally changes the way we interact with ads, removing controllers, buttons, keyboards, handsets and mice.
Xbox have just launched the Xbox 360 Kinect Controller.
The Challenge: getting rid of the barrier 30+ years of interacting with computers and technology through controllers, buttons, keyboards, handsets and mice. The principal of Kinect is that it works on similar motion tracking technology you may have seen in big budget movie special effects and video games. However, instead of every member of the household having to don a colourful jumpsuit with the ping pong balls attached for the console to track every movement, the Kinect camera will do this for you.
Developed by PrimeSense, the Kinect 3D depth and motion sensor camera chips have made the unit so sensitive; it’s like a military range finder for your living room. So instead of tracking ping pong balls the camera is smart enough to track 42 different points on the human body and translate these movements into live action. Kinect for Xbox 360 is not only controlled by movement but also voice. With four in-built microphones you can wander around your living room and the camera and system can track you and adhere to your commands such as: “Xbox play music” or “Xbox pause.”
It launched this week. It’s now been hacked as part of the OpenKinect project and smart dudes all over are hooking the controller up to their PCs to explore what’s possible. All the amazing stuff below happened within 5 days.
Kinect Open Sourced
The Kinect was hacked and open sourced within 3 hours of purchase.
Kinect Multitouch
Built on Ubuntu Linux using libfreenect and libTISCH.
Kinect Object Recognition
All of the processing and recognition occurs in real time. Using OpenKinect + OpenCV + FestVox
Kinect 3D Depth + Color
By combining the color and the depth image you can project the image back into space and create a “holographic” representation of the persons or objects that were captured.
ofxKinect 3D draw 001
First tests of playing with Kinect on OSX. Thanks to libfreenect and ofxKinect for openFrameworks. One hand draws in 3D, two hands rotates the view. Very rough prototype. Lots of fun!
Best question at the Blizzard World of Warcraft: Quests and Lore Q&A
What A Boss!! And if you’re wondering what they’re talking about. Here’s the game.
Wait for Leroy!!
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Face PONG from Matt Ditton on Vimeo.
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Nice bit of tracking so you can use your face as the main input.
Written using the OpenCV library for processing.
Matt Ditton is hands on with quite of different things. Programming, photography, indie games development, tech art, environment modeler, university lecturer, DVA student. To find out more, see thequietvoid.com and his Flickr here. Not bad eh.
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