matt

Happy birthday Matt!

Ooh nice one Matt.
Shot - seeing as I need to do the same thing or buy a new one.

Dude - how did you eventually fix your PS3 issue?

Yeah I saw that. It is an impressive device outside of the gaming world. Would like to see it being used as effectively inside though.

Oh okay. The reason that I ask is because these students in an environment-friendly house building challenge use Kinect to control the electrical appliances and lighting based on human movement and gestures, which I thought you would enjoy.

Hehehehe Spam on ALL THE WALLS!
It seems to be the case. Do you get the Popular Mechanics?

Good thanks, very busy (work; exams). Jeez this wall of yours looks...um...a lot like me?

Hey matt! I have the weirdest inclination to call you mattewis.
You doing okay?

Yeah he seems to know what is happening...

Would like to know what he reckons about my issue with the Xbox...stuck in an infinite update loop

Howzit Mr.matt! Things going well on your side?

I used the link to that maestr_za guy in the thread about the dude's broken Xbox. i have messaged him, as I am having a few issues myself. Thanks for the link man, you rock!

Yeah, a lot of good ones heading this way. Trying to clear up my backlog before that happens...

Hahahaha thanks. Big Boss FTW. Going well on this side. The forum is very quiet these days.

Howzit going, bru?

The links were awesome.
1. The disaster relief idea is an awesome idea, especially the 3D mapping for flying drones. As the author suggests, the Kinect device is a ripe tool for hacking and MS actually does not get pissed off at the idea of people doing so. The exploitation of this technology could lead to much greater things, especially in tasks where human lives are at stake.

2. Hehehehe look at him dance. Using the device to basically create a robotic "shadower" that mimics your every movement can make a lot of things possible, i.e. completing tasks quicker at with the same precision (well, in time I guess). Not to mention the cool stuff you can do when it comes to "Robot Wars" (remember that show?)

Indeed it would. Making robots "see" in 3D is some pretty hardcore stuff. One step closer to having robots understand what is happening and making educated guesses. I got into a pretty interesting conversation with a colleague of mine who did his Bsc Computer Science at Tukkies. He was telling me about a lecturer who explained the general thinking of a computer. If you are looking at a computer and a computer operated being with the ability to recognize objects is staring back, he might recognize a human. But, if you were to hide your hand behind your back or a wall (or anything like that), the computer will not register that it is your hand behind the wall. For all that it knows, your hand can be a melon or a box. That was quite interesting, especially after i read an article a while back when Kinect was still in developmet, that MS has about 3TB of human movement and body positional data. Could they slowly be solving this problem? It can be quite an interesting debate.

Hey Matt,
On topic with the Kinect thread, I wrote a blog post a while ago, which kinda feeds in to what we have been discussing. Give it a read when you have a gap. (keep in mind that I had to write this in 20mins, so the content is not that rich).