{"id":9235,"date":"2011-01-05T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"hacker-devises-kinect-motion-capture-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/9235-hacker-devises-kinect-motion-capture-solution","title":{"rendered":"Hacker devises Kinect motion-capture solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kinect hacks are fast turning into their very own genre, it seems &ndash; who needs that baby-time Kinect Adventures when you can hook it up to power a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/8937-Kinect-hacked-and-plugged-into-autonomous-flying-machine.html\" target=\"_self\">quadrotor deathcopter of justice<\/a> instead?<\/p>\n<p>The latest thing on the Kinect hacking scene was probably always inevitable, but that&rsquo;s not to say it isn&rsquo;t all kinds of awesome anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Dutchman Jasper Brekelmans has written a Kinect hack that jacks the device into industry-standard motion-capture software, MotionBuilder, providing real-time mo-cap in the comfort and privacy of your own lounge.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_PtxfRpCBHE&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"YouTube\">video demo<\/a> posted on YouTube, Jasper calibrates Kinect&rsquo;s cameras within his own custom app, then launches MotionBuilder and streams his movement into the second app. Then turns himself into an animated blue alien for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"340\" height=\"220\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_PtxfRpCBHE?version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_PtxfRpCBHE?version=3\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>With only a single device, this hack is necessarily somewhat limited &ndash; although it&rsquo;s more than adequate for hobbyist animators and game developers for example. It is certainly several infinities cheaper than a professional mo-cap studio session.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10319-Kinect-hacked-to-perform-motion-capture\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Xbox 360 Kinect motion capture\">Xbox 360 Kinect motion capture<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking mo-cap out of the $15 million studio, and into your lounge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}