Microsoft's Kinect is rightfully getting a lot of attention from researchers. One snippet that caught my attention is a collaboration between Microsoft and a number of UK and Canada-based researchers. The result is KinectFusion. Have a look for yourself: The implications for virtual worlds are fairly obvious. The thing that particularly struck me is the dynamic capability … [Read more...] about On the fly 3D surface reconstruction: KinectFusion
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Emergency birth at home simulation
This article originally appeared over at our sister-site Metaverse Health. One of the biggest challenges with online or PC-based simulations is the infrastructure required to run them. The move to web-based simulations is key to resolving that issue although web-based currently can come with a trade-off on complexity in a lot of cases. That said, sometimes simplicity can … [Read more...] about Emergency birth at home simulation
Microsoft Kinect on WoW: evolutionary steps
This post comes from Metaverse Health, our sister site devoted to everything related to health and virtual worlds. Here's a great video showing the use of the Kinect to play World of Warcraft using a software framework called FAAST. After the initial demo there's some useful discussion by the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies on its … [Read more...] about Microsoft Kinect on WoW: evolutionary steps