Tag: Interactive
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Interactive Luminous Carpets with Kinect
The boundaries between the digital and physical world around us are fading. Traditionally passive objects like mirrors, windows, coffee tables, clothes and even plants are now becoming interactive. One of the innovations in this area is Luminous Carpets. It is a carpet with embedded LED lights. The product is a collaboration between Philips and Dutch carpet maker Desso. Making it interactive…
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Keep your magic a secret; hiding your Kinect V2
Like any good magician trying to keep it’s tricks a secret, developers of interactive installations should try to hide the technology of their installation as good as possible. This will keep your audience wondering and make your installation more magical. In this article I explore how the Kinect can be masked or hidden behind a Magic Mirror. Masking the…
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Rebuilding the HoloLens scanning effect with RoomAlive Toolkit
The initial video that explains the HoloLens to the world contains a small clip that visualizes how it can see the environment. It shows a pattern of large and smaller triangles that gradually overlay the real world objects seen in the video. I decided to try to rebuild this effect in real life by using a projection mapping setup that used…