Dynamic Bounding Boxes for Controlling Visualizations and AR Objects on a Massage Table

This project is an account of a control mechanism’s evolution. The objective is an intuitive interface for use in Enhanced Visualization Therapy. SimpleOpenNI’s hand tracking with the kinect was clumsy at best. It proved even worse than fiducials for AR.

Ultimately I decided to use closest point tracking.

In order to get close to the table without the top of my head becoming the closest point, I created dynamic bounding boxes which excluded everything beyond the tallest recognized depth that was also closest to the center of the massage table. This proved to be an extremely agile tool.

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