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Most unfortunate. I was hoping to see the technology applied to VR. One of my complaints/observations about VR is that you are a disembodied viewpoint in the

Most unfortunate. I was hoping to see the technology applied to VR. One of my complaints/observations about VR is that you are a disembodied viewpoint in the VR environment. Something like a Kinect mocap system would add bodily presence in the VR environment.

stephengillie 9y ago
There are open-source projects to allow a Vive to leverage Kinect motion tracking. And HTC is developing a full body motion tracker. These are solutions I found when looking into leg sensors for a Taekwondo VR training game. I feel we're approaching a technology intersection between self-driving cars and VR, in the need to map physical spaces and the objects therein. I keep waiting for someone to bring in eTemplate laser scanning tech to bridge the gap, but nobody has. I fear most people see these as entirely separate domains with little overlap.
- simplyinfinity 9y ago
  why use the kinect when you can use leapmotion for ~100$ IIRC ( only for hand gesture recognition, that is )
guardian5x 9y ago
I think the technology (basically structured light / ToF) is and will be implemented in many tech, like the Hololens, but also in the iPhone X (Apple bought Primesense which created the first Kinect). I think we will still see that technology in many products to come.
lostgame 9y ago
>> Something like a Kinect mocap system would add bodily presence in the VR environment. I personally spearheaded a couple of projects to make it work with the Vive in this way. Unfortunately, the Kinect's tendency to screw up leg motion, SDK's and API's that read like an old grimoire of Black Magick and worked about just as well, as well as it's proprietary skeleton detection drivers, which prevented me from getting in and fixing a lot of these issues, which caused the company I worked for to drop it completely. a focus on 'developers developers developers' could've really saved this thing.
- sp332 9y ago
  Did you consider bypassing the proprietary detection stuff and using the sensor data with another library, like OpenCV or depthJS?
- Qworg 9y ago
  Fixing the skeletonization would be a hard lift - it is implemented in a random decision forest that's been trained with 10k+ hours of data.
chokolad 9y ago
It is applied to VR. Kinect technology is a part of HoloLens and is used for inside-out tracking in recent crop of Windows VR headsets from Acer, Dell, HP and the likes.
partiallypro 9y ago
Microsoft has stated they are still using the technology for VR/AR and robotics.

stephengillie 9y ago

There are open-source projects to allow a Vive to leverage Kinect motion tracking. And HTC is developing a full body motion tracker. These are solutions I found when looking into leg sensors for a Taekwondo VR training game. I feel we're approaching a technology intersection between self-driving cars and VR, in the need to map physical spaces and the objects therein. I keep waiting for someone to bring in eTemplate laser scanning tech to bridge the gap, but nobody has. I fear most people see these as entirely separate domains with little overlap.

simplyinfinity 9y ago
why use the kinect when you can use leapmotion for ~100$ IIRC ( only for hand gesture recognition, that is )

guardian5x 9y ago

I think the technology (basically structured light / ToF) is and will be implemented in many tech, like the Hololens, but also in the iPhone X (Apple bought Primesense which created the first Kinect). I think we will still see that technology in many products to come.

lostgame 9y ago

>> Something like a Kinect mocap system would add bodily presence in the VR environment. I personally spearheaded a couple of projects to make it work with the Vive in this way. Unfortunately, the Kinect's tendency to screw up leg motion, SDK's and API's that read like an old grimoire of Black Magick and worked about just as well, as well as it's proprietary skeleton detection drivers, which prevented me from getting in and fixing a lot of these issues, which caused the company I worked for to drop it completely. a focus on 'developers developers developers' could've really saved this thing.

sp332 9y ago
Did you consider bypassing the proprietary detection stuff and using the sensor data with another library, like OpenCV or depthJS?
Qworg 9y ago
Fixing the skeletonization would be a hard lift - it is implemented in a random decision forest that's been trained with 10k+ hours of data.

chokolad 9y ago

It is applied to VR. Kinect technology is a part of HoloLens and is used for inside-out tracking in recent crop of Windows VR headsets from Acer, Dell, HP and the likes.

partiallypro 9y ago

Microsoft has stated they are still using the technology for VR/AR and robotics.