Tag: natural user interface
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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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Real life Portal; a holographic window using Kinect
The game Portal (released in 2007 by Valve) is known for it’s gameplay where portals could be used to teleport between different locations. Portals where rendered as virtual windows into the connected location with the well-known orange and blue rings around them. The game spawned a huge amount of memes, fan art and YouTube videos…