Kinect on Mac :-)

braz2kuk · 30 Dec 2010 at 22:59

Got this running on my mac, it's early days but looks promising :-)

Marky · 30 Dec 2010 at 23:17

Heh nice

VaderDSL · 30 Dec 2010 at 23:20

Nice

hand gestures would be pretty cool, swipe left/right in iphoto etc.

MuGeN · 31 Dec 2010 at 00:28

Is that how kinect sees things? thats pretty cool

rpn · 31 Dec 2010 at 09:15

You must have the most number of Apps! :eek:

NickK · 31 Dec 2010 at 10:44

I assume that's the linux system ported to Mac?

Kainz · 31 Dec 2010 at 11:40

He's gonna need a bigger screen!

NickK · 31 Dec 2010 at 12:04

Kainz said:
He's gonna need a bigger screen!

Nah, it's and OpenGL view so you just alpha channel it and so you can see through to the windows behind

Feek · 31 Dec 2010 at 12:12

NickK said:
Nah, it's and OpenGL view so you just alpha channel it and so you can see through to the windows behind

He was talking about needing it for the dock!

Kainz · 31 Dec 2010 at 12:49

Somnambulist · 31 Dec 2010 at 13:38

That's awesome. I couldn't care less about any of the Kinect games, but the actual device holds a ton of potential when used in other ways.

craptakular · 31 Dec 2010 at 20:29

Please create the jedi trick where you can open doors by flapping your hand.

braz2kuk · 1 Jan 2011 at 10:02

It's just Mac OS X Snow Leopard with the Xcode suite installed along with the relevant drivers for Kinect (see website below):

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started#OS_X

I recommend using HomeBrew seemed the easiest and best method. And in regard to having a large Dock, it's just bad habit i tend to chuck everything on there for some reason!

Ciphon · 1 Jan 2011 at 23:03

So what are you planning to use this for?

braz2kuk · 2 Jan 2011 at 18:44

Ciphon said:
So what are you planning to use this for?

Not really got anything planned to be honest however it has a huge amount of potential for the future, so really just going to keep up with development and see were it goes.

themadhaggis · 3 Jan 2011 at 20:36

That is extremely cool

Retroman09 · 3 Jan 2011 at 22:47

Very impressed. Been following the kinect hacks online but its nice to see it appearing on the mac now. Moving stuff on OSX just seems so much cooler than on windows...then again most stuff does.

Raymond Lin · 3 Jan 2011 at 23:51

It sees the world with a heat sensor?

MikeHunt79 · 3 Jan 2011 at 23:53

Oh man, it would be rather cool to control some synths in Logic using the kinect... Could do some Therimin type sounds pretty easily... How much coding would be needed to do something like this?

NickK · 5 Jan 2011 at 00:23

Lol @ Musical Mooning

It's possible. A simple implementation could use optic flow analysis to see the shifts in the scene. So if you shift you hands it will appear - up/down=volume and left/right=pitch for example. Violently waving your hand (as you do in kinect) would allow the system to sense a high speed changing area. As the arm is a length.. it can then determine a joint from that... (hence you could get two hands working).

The setup that the kinect gets you todo is probably just that - looking for the changes in the movements so it can build up a skeleton based off the flow analysis. Once it knows your relative bone sizes then it could make it easier to be more selective of the movements.

More complex analysis of skeletal position (I believe the Xbox does this step) is probably in the works by some cunning linux boffins.. queue air finger pianos..