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Nimble Sense: Bring Your Hands into Virtual Reality and Beyond(kickstarter.com)
2 points by rywang 12y ago|0 comments
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by rywang 13y ago
3Gear Systems - http://threegear.com - San Francisco, CA Contact: jobs@threegear.com Bringing the 'Minority Report' user interface to reality, without the gorilla-arm. We're a team of three research engineers dev
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by rywang 13y ago
Very true. I work at a company building an alternative gestural input device ( http://threegear.com ). Here's how we have tried to address your points. 1. Gorilla arm -- keep your hands low. We support tracking and interac
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by rywang 13y ago
A couple medical device companies and a hospital are evaluating our system right now. :-) We're actively working on supporting smaller / shorter-range sensors as well. You probably already know that in addition to the Kinect, a
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by rywang 13y ago
Actually, it's quite possible to build a "clicker" on the Kinect. It involves mounting the sensor from above, and building completely different software that tracks the hands and fingers well. We've done it: http:&#x2
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by rywang 13y ago
A big problem with the LEAP is that there isn't an effective way to click / select something. Pushing forward with your index finger isn't very accurate when the finger tip is also controlling the position. Hence, you alway
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Show HN: 3D Gestural control of Minecraft, Google Maps, Reddit(threegearsystems.blogspot.com)
3 points by rywang 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Play Minecraft, control Google Maps with gestures(threegearsystems.blogspot.com)
1 points by rywang 13y ago|0 comments
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by rywang 14y ago
When I first arrived at MIT, I was handed a book on "How to Get Around MIT." I was impressed with the section on hacking, which included the following story about the Harvard-Yale hack: "DKE has tried to hack the game before, most memorabl
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by rywang 14y ago
We're looking forward to working with all the new 3D camera technology coming down the pipe, and as soon as we have the resources to do so, we'll start supporting Mac and Linux too.
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by rywang 14y ago
It's hard to specify our exact workspace, because it's the intersection of the two camera frustums. Here's an approximate estimate: 2 feet wide x 1.75 feet deep x 1.25 feet high.
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by rywang 14y ago
What's great about the Kinect is that it lets developers go after "3D computer vision" problems rather than "2D vision." There's a wealth of techniques from computer graphics on dealing with 3D point clouds, whereas even basic things like b
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by rywang 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback and directions. I've just replied to the parent post with some discussion about how we differ in terms of features and technical approach. We're also certainly cognizant of the price of our SDK. We hope that not too
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by rywang 14y ago
It's indeed similar, but we think there are three important differences. Because our cameras are top mounted, our system is more comfortable / ergonomic. You don't have to lift your hands very high to interact, and your arms are always sup
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Show HN: Add 3D gestures to your applications(threegearsystems.blogspot.com)
28 points by rywang 14y ago|15 comments
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by rywang 14y ago
Hello HN! We're a three-person team building 3D gestural user interfaces. We'd love to get your feedback!
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Show HN: Add 3D gestures to your applications(threegearsystems.blogspot.com)
2 points by rywang 14y ago|1 comments
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KinEtre: Animate the world with a Kinect and your body(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by rywang 14y ago|0 comments
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New image sensors could lead to focusing photos after they're taken(news.cornell.edu)
3 points by rywang 14y ago|0 comments
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by rywang 15y ago
While we're on the subject, I'm curious if you've played with matrix-toolkits-java / netlib-java. I'm considering switching to it. I've had good experiences with the Lawson-Hanson non-negative least squares that comes with netlib.
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by rywang 15y ago
I use the Colt (Java) matrix libraries for applied math and graphics applications, but it's still quite costly compared to optimized libraries like Intel's MKL. A singular value decomposition takes about eight times as long in Colt vs MKL.
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy(theatlantic.com)
7 points by rywang 15y ago|1 comments
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Visas for dollars (Economist)(economist.com)
3 points by rywang 15y ago|0 comments
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Hacked(theatlantic.com)
5 points by rywang 15y ago|0 comments
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research(jcs.biologists.org)
42 points by rywang 15y ago|13 comments
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Beware - "Advisors" Slide(matthiasus.wordpress.com)
3 points by rywang 15y ago|0 comments
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Chinese government blockage carefully designed to look like Gmail problem(reuters.com)
5 points by rywang 16y ago|1 comments
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Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media(theatlantic.com)
1 points by rywang 16y ago|0 comments
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by rywang 16y ago
The buildings are meticulously 3-D modeled and texture mapped--you can see the texture repetition artifacts. I've read some research about automatic modeling techniques from street view images+, but I'd suspect this was done by hand. + ht
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by rywang 16y ago
And here's the one from Shanghai: http://sh.o.cn/

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