Air Drums

http://itp.nyu.edu/~mu407/blog/computational-cameras/air-drums/

Skeleton Tracking Ideas

1. Workout Soundtrack – When walking or running on a treadmill, a soundtrack is generated based on the movement of the body. For example a kick drum could trigger each time a foot lands.

2. Pose As Password – Instead of a text based password, the user must strike a specific pose to unlock something.

[…]

Hand Tracking With Kinect and Processing

As the user waves his/her hand an image is revealed. Kind of like wiping a foggy window to see through. Having trouble getting the videos to appear here, so check it out on my blog.

Try it out. Click to download the zip.

Check out the code

[…]

Spatial Literacy

With a reasonable amount of teaching and practice, humans can read and comprehend text fairly easily. However, when it comes to vision we only perceive a small amount of what appears in our field of view. We can recognize the objects and details we focus on, but much of what is contained in our peripheries […]