3D Body Tracking for Media Environments

The groundbreaking technology of depth cameras, allows to record environments and human bodies in 3 dimensions. This turns media performances and installations into interactive playgrounds and unfolds new creative and involving potential.

NODE15 offered three workshops allowing participants to deal with the typical tasks that pop up again and again when using the depth data as input for the development of applications:

 
 

Calibrating the virtual environment seen by Microsoft Kinect camera to the physical world; reducing noise from the sensor data; analysing and filtering point clouds to detect users and their interactions; – and rendering visuals based on these data.

Skeleton, gesture and hand tracking allows artists to experiment with countless possibilities of interactive concepts and visualizations on stages.

In addition, the approach of rapid prototying lowers the barriers of entry and simplifies the process within interdisciplinary collaborations.

Thanks to our partner Microsoft for the hardware sponsoring.

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