A simple program designed for painting using hand gestures free. It was done in touch designer with a video projector and kinect. Ensure you have the necessary components for coding with kinect. Feb, 2012 hello there to all of you kinect fanatics. Sorry to hear about your kinect, well try our best to get it up and running for you. It will be easier to set third point, but kinect will probably lose tracking, when you look down. Once the sdk has completed installing successfully, ensure the kinect sensor is plugged into an external power source and then plug the kinect sensor into the pcs usb port. Nov 16, 2010 today in the department of kinect hacks, weve got an officiallooking hack showing off how you can use the kinect and its opensource drivers, of course to turn any flat surface into a multi. To start this app, connect your kinect to mac in advance. The following blog post was guest authored by anup chathoth, cofounder and ceo of ubi interactive.
Turn any surface into a touch screen touchless touch. Skt creates multitouch surfaces easily with the kinect camera. Kinect code kinect initialization this is our first real kinect specific code. Projects search about project source issues wikis downloads. In despite of the simplicity, it shows it is possible and maybe it would be helpful to somebody. You can also use the widget for scrolling by a simple touch. Lets you interact with your pc without actually touching anything. Turn any surface into a touch screen with ubi interactive and.
Added support for the kinect for windows v2 and xbox one sensor. Kinetic scroll allows you to scroll automatically the content on your screen by a simple swipe with two fingers, and the speed of scrolling will depend on the speed of swiping dynamic mode. Ubi provide a variety of paid software touch solutions from 1 touch point to 20 designed to. Using kinect to turn any surface into a multiuser, multi. The kinect for windows software development kit sdk 2. Using a kinect, openni, and nite in touch designer to create a pseudo augmented reality heads up display with a depth key. Works with any surface size from 14 to over 200 windows 7 and windows 88. Hi there, ive made a multi touch screen system with a microsoft kinect sensor.
Hi there, ive made a multitouch screen system with a microsoft kinect sensor. The air is their base unit and when you move up to the pro version, you get the added ability to use the kinect system with touch sensitive technology provided your screen is touch sensitive. It is possible get a 3d image from two cameras called stereopsis just as how humans see objects with their eyes. This project makes it easy to transform your wpf4 touch application in touch less with the kinect with little change. Turn any surface into a touch based reading apparatus. All i want to do is point a camera at a tv, run windows windows 10 preferably on the tv, and touch the tv like a giant ipad.
This video by ignacio aguirre displays how, with only a kinect, any display surface have the touch based feature. A swipe with three fingers will let you jump to the top or bottom of the page. The simple kinect touch is a program that allows users to create multitouch surfaces. Kinect multitouch surface simple kinect touch kinect hacks. Unfortunately it seems as though development of any touchscreen for kinect projects has all but stopped since 20. Simple kinect touch allow you to have a multitouch screen in any surface. Oct 21, 2014 from the download location, doubleclick on kinectsdkv2. Download and install the latest kinect for windows sdk.
This contains a small number of very useful executable examples for inputs, outputs, and teaching. In this case, i am just using a piece of cloth in a very rudimentary way. First we find an attached kinect sensor, then we initialize it and prepare to read data from it. Up to 6 peoples full skeletons can be tracked 2 on the original kinect, and the center position of an addition 4 people in the camera view is tracked as well. Interprets the motion data from a microsoft kinect sensor and converts it into multi touch input. From the download location, doubleclick on kinectsdkv2.
Kinect code kinect initialization this is our first real kinectspecific code. Just another sign were getting closer to the future. Apr 16, 2012 utilizing the kinects skeletal tracking feature, the hack allowed him to use a kinect to interface with microsofts latest bi reporting tool and provided him with easy data exploration, visualization and presentation capabilities, power view, through natural language and simple gestures. Javier and me are working in an idea to use this and the face recognition opencv implementation for. It is possible to use the xbox kinect with simplecv. Kinectiq wireless presentation and collaboration touchboards. Hi there, i put together simple positional tracking using a kinect v2. Using avins kinectopenni driver and james bass touch point cloud. For more information about the simple kinect touch 1. A simple demo showing how to display different data streams from the microsoft kinect for windows version 2. Ubi interactive is a seattle startup that was one of 11 companies from around the world selected to take part in a threemonth microsoft kinect accelerator program in the spring of 2012. Utilizing the kinects skeletal tracking feature, the hack allowed him to use a kinect to interface with microsofts latest bi reporting tool and provided him with easy data exploration, visualization and presentation capabilities, power view, through natural language and simple gestures.
In extremely simple user interface power volume channel. From the download location, doubleclick on kinectsdkv1. At some point, we are going to have a video beam projecting the screen. Set up a visual studio project with the proper build configurations. All i want to do is point a camera at a tv, run windows windows 10 preferably on. Home made multitouch screen system with microsoft kinect sensor. Plug the usb cable from the power hub into a usb 3. Touch and annotate on the main screen to enhance presentations and collaboration. Getting started with kinect and opencv electronics for you. Simple kinect touch allow you to have a multitouch screen in any.
Turn any surface into a touchbased reading apparatus. The physics simulations, which enable the skeletal tracking to accurately predict the flight of the ball, were the biggest challenge. Kinect viewer app java for kinect j4k library university of florida. May 18, 2016 in creating wall ball, agren used the kinect unity package in the kinect for windows sdk 2. The kinect system works natively with the windows touchscreen interface, meaning the icons can be clicked by touch and photos can be zoomed in and out of using multitouch gestures, all of which. This makes it much easier to filter things out of the image based on depth. Use kinect to turn any wall into a touch screen kinect. Hot hack from chile with source code ludique labs has released the code for simple kinect touch aka skt. Design design is a sense making with various media. The application attempts to improve upon similar software kinectvia, synapse, osceleton by offering more openni features and more user control. This is a simple kinect viewer that visualizes the live depth and color frames as a 3d. Use kinect to turn any wall into a touch screen kinect hacks. The initkinect function initializes a kinect sensor for use.
Supports kinect for windows v1 and v2, xbox 360xbox one kinect, orbbec astrapro and openni primesense sensors learn more unrestricted free trial download now. With kinect you can control a television set without remote control, a computer without keyboard, a mouse icon or touch screen and games without any controller in your hand. Basically, there are two image files, one on top of the other. The kinect uses a persons right hand as an eraser to reveal the image behind the layer. The new kinect uses a time of flight method for the depth sensing. Openni sensors, orbbec astrapro, kinect v1xbox 360, kinect v2 xbox one. Touchless touch compatible hardware kinect sensors v1, v2, xbox 360 and xbox one touchless touch works with the kinect for windows v1 and v2xbox one sensor. Interprets the motion data from a microsoft kinect sensor and converts it into multi touch. Case in point a new software that uses a projector in tandem with the kinect to create a touch screen out of any surface. Kinect app makes touch screen out of anything the mary sue. Microsofts kinect turns any surface into a touchscreen cnet. If you havent already, please check out our kinect troubleshooting articles for some simple steps that may help you out.
Once the kinect for windows sdk has completed installing successfully, ensure the kinect sensor is connected to the power hub and the power hub is plugged into an outlet. This single installer works for both 32bit and 64bit windows. Simple kinect touch allow you to have a multi touch screen in any surface. New touch algorithm meaning the software is now much more accurate. With the plus model, you get all the feature of the air and pro, with the addition of the android player. This mac bundle does not include the chuck outputs created with platypus, which mcafee erroneously thinks are dangerous. I saw this interactive graffiti wall installation recently at an art show. Utilizing the kinect s skeletal tracking feature, the hack allowed him to use a kinect to interface with microsofts latest bi reporting tool and provided him with easy data exploration, visualization and presentation capabilities, power view, through natural language and simple gestures. Make sure the kinect sensor is not plugged into any of the usb ports on the computer. I always liked the idea of using a kinect or some other ir3d camera to do so. I have a kinect application that i can generate 14 distinct screen points leftright hands for up to 2 people and i would like to be able to send each point to the application with focus as a multi touch message. With kinect you can control a television set without remote control, a computer without keyboard, a mouse icon or touchscreen and games without any controller in your hand. By downloading this library you accept the terms and conditions.
Hook up a kinect sensor to windows 8, project the screen onto a wall or any other surface, and interact and control the computer by touching the projected image. Jun 04, 2011 turn any surface into a touch based reading apparatus. So your presentation will be so simple and easy without a mess of cable. Using the kinect to make any surface multitouch techcrunch. Today in the department of kinect hacks, weve got an officiallooking hack showing off how you can use the kinect and its opensource drivers, of course to turn any flat surface into a multi. The kinect chop reads positional and skeletal tracking data from the kinect and kinect2 sensors. Jan 25, 2011 using a kinect, openni, and nite in touch designer to create a pseudo augmented reality heads up display with a depth key.
As some of you may have noticed, a lot of my lessons do not work anymore. Javier and me are working in an idea to use this and the face recognition opencv implementation for a project of digital exhibit design. The software also works with the kinect for xbox 360 if you install the kinect sdk to purchase a v1 sensor please visit the kinect v1 hardware page for a list of retailers and. Getting your kicks with kinect for windows kinect for. Download and uncompress it from here if you have a github account. The application attempts to improve upon similar software kinect via, synapse, osceleton by offering more openni features and more user control. The kinect system works natively with the windows touch screen interface, meaning the icons can be clicked by touch and photos can be zoomed in and out of using multi touch gestures, all of which. You dont need anything in your hands to control the project screen. For this it emits a pretty strong ir light that produces a nice ir image. Using simple kinect touch for rear screen touches that. However, designing effective interfaces with midair gestures, is not an easy task.
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