I was blown away by how the guys at the V Motion Project (they’re from New Zealand!) have managed to use the Kinect in such an impressive way. It shows how a cheap and powerful sensor such as Kinect can create amazing interactive experiences that everyone can leverage on – from students, to musicians and so on.
Check out how the National University of Singapore’s HCI class is doing the same.
Here’s the description of the project from their page:
This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live and projected on a huge wall.
We created and designed the live visual spectacle with a music video being produced from the results. We wanted it to be clear that the technology was real and actually being played live. The interface plays a key role in illustrating the idea of the instrument and we designed it to highlight the audio being controlled by the dancer. Design elements like real time tracking and samples being drawn on as they are played all add to authenticity of the performance. The visuals are all created live and the music video is essentially a real document of the night.
Check out the tech behind the project here:
custom-logic.com/blog/v-motion-project-the-instrument/
Very very cool. Who thinks we should do this in Orchard?
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