Month: March 2014

  • If the phrase “organized adult Wiffle ball” has a slightly ludicrous ring to it, that’s because we invariably associate the white plastic sphere with childhood, backyard fields, and quirky ground rules. A one-hopper off the tool shed was a double, a shot over the boxwood hedge was a home run, and a foul ball into…

  • But PrimeSense goes further than that. In our book we reported on an Argentinian company called Shopperception that uses a PrimeSense device to watch a shopper in a Walmart store. It can see the gender of the shopper but not discern the person’s identity. When the shopper reaches for a box of Cheerios, an iPad…

  • Adam from Occipital here (we make the Structure Sensor). As of now, you can use OpenNI with the Structure Sensor on any platforms currently supported by OpenNI. We’ve also forked OpenNI on GitHub (along with many others who have done the same) to make sure it remains available after April 23rd. For those who don’t…

  • “Open” Kinect Tools Go Closed and Dead, Limiting Artist and Hacker Options; Call for Help

    “Open” Kinect Tools Go Closed and Dead, Limiting Artist and Hacker Options; Call for Help First, OpenNI was always dominated by a single company, PrimeSense. And rightfully so: PrimeSense developed the core technologies in the first Kinect camera, and had the talent who knew how to use it. But that in turn meant that OpenNI…