Kinect
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Now things are getting interesting. 🙂 It took me some effort to get this working, but looking at the results I think it was worth it. As mentioned in the last post, I've been trying to get a live feed from the Kinect sensor to display dynamically inside AutoCAD. This post shows how to do that. A huge thanks to Boris Scheiman for helping me get to this point: he not only extended his nKinect implementation to generate the point cloud data I asked for, he sent a number of emails explaining (and even providing) the various modules needed to…
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After a completely ridiculous wait of close to 4 months, I finally received my Kinect a few weeks ago. Apart from it being the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history, the delay was also due to the fact I was holding out for the very popular Xbox 360 250Gb Slim bundle (and also because the vendor I chose fumbled the order during the final few weeks, which just added insult to injury). I'd done my homework before receiving the Xbox, and realised that the bundled Kinect would not come with the external power supply needed to connect it to…
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From time to time I listen to the .NET Rocks show – I don't get the chance to listen every week, but I do browse through the RSS items I get for the show episodes and find some time to put those I find of particular interest on in the background while I'm working on something else. Yesterday's episode caught my eye, as it focused on the nKinect project, exposing the Kinect's capabilities to .NET. And 'm really (and I mean really) excited about the Xbox Kinect. I mentioned it in passing in a post from last March (it was…
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I've been a little slow getting my AU material together, this year (I've been called onto more pressing issues fairly consistently over the last weeks/months), so I'm very much up against Monday's content submission deadline. I'll certainly have the handouts ready, but the presentations will have to come later. As I've done in the past, I like to post my handouts here for people to take a look at (and provide feedback on in time for me to correct prior to the event ;-). Today's post is the handout for my AutoCAD user-focused class, "AC427-4 - Point Clouds on a…
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As I mentioned in the last post, I've been working on an application that brings across point clouds from Photosynth into AutoCAD. Before we get into the details, I'd like to lay some of the groundwork for this series of posts by talking a little about the bigger picture: "reality". How about that for bigger picture? It doesn't get much bigger than that, unless you're working on the LHC at CERN. 😉 Reality is increasingly being captured in digital form (Google StreetView, Bing Maps, Photosynth) and augmented (just look at the cool iPhone apps available in this area, such as…