HACKED KINECT MULTITOUCH using libFreenect and libTISCH (via Florian Echtler) |
| HACKED KINECT MULTITOUCH using libFreenect and libTISCH (via Florian Echtler) Posted: 13 Nov 2010 05:29 AM PST MULTI-TOUCH WITH HACKED KINECT Here is NUI-Group member Florian Echtler's proof-of-concept HD video of using a hacked Kinect camera for multitouch-like interaction. The application was built on Ubuntu Linux written using libfreenect, by marcan42 and Florian's creation, libTISCH. Florian decided to use picture-browsing interaction to demonstrate proof-of concept, so "everybody can focus on more interesting things :-)" (I have SO many ideas for this! I'll throw a few out there in an upcoming post....maybe someone can run with them!) RELATED Hacked Kinect taught to work as multitouch interface Paul Miller, engadget, 11/11/10 FOR THE TECH-CURIOUS: TISCH stands for Tangible Interactive Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans, and is a cross-platform, cross device multi-touch development framework. You can download the source package for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux from the TISCH Sourceforge website. The Ubantu Lucid/Karmac version has "superquick installation via PPA" - the instructions can be found on the TISCH Sourceforge website. LibFreenect- Open Source PC Drivers for Kinect Xan Tium, XBLOG 360 11/10/10 Marcan is Hector Martin Cantero, the author of the Abort, Retry, Hack? blog. For your convenience, I've reposted something I wrote about libTISCH back in 2009: For techies (and the tech-curious) who like technologies that support collaboration and multi-touch interaction, this is great news! Florian Echtler announced the first stable releas of libTISCH, a multi-touch development framwork, which can be found on Sourceforge. TISCH stands for Tangible Interaction Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans. libTISCH, a C++ software framework, is included in this project. It provides a means for creating GUIs based on multi-touch and/or tangible input devices. Here is how it works:  Here is information from libTISCH announcement: Highlights of this release are, among others, the following features: - ready-to-use multitouch widgets based on OpenGL - reconfigurable, hardware-independent gesture recognition engine - support for widely used (move, scale, rotate..), pre-defined gestures as well as custom-defined gestures - hardware drivers for FTIR, DI, Wiimote, DiamondTouch.. - TUIO converters: source and sink - cross-platform: Linux, MacOS X, Windows (32 and 64 bit) - cross-language: C++ with bindings for C#, Java, Python libTISCH has a lot to offer for the multitouch developer. For example, the textured widgets enable rapid development of applications for many kinds of multi-touch or tangible interfaces. The separate gesture recognition engine allows the translation of a wide range of highly configurable gestures into pre-defined or custom events which are then acted on by the widgets. While the lower layers of libTISCH provide functionality similar to tbeta, touche etc. (you can interface existing TUIO-based software with libTISCH in both directions), it goes far beyond. More information about the library and underlying architecture can be found on http://tisch.sf.net/ and in the Sourceforge wiki at http://sourceforge.net/apps/ Note: Dr. Florian Echtler is on the scientific staff at the Technisch Universitat Munchen in Germany. Be sure to check out his webpage. I especially like the concept of the MeTaTop: "A Multi-Sensory Table Top System for Medical Procedures" that is linked from Florian's website.  http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
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