{"id":37793,"date":"2011-10-21T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/microsoft-creates-a-holodesk-with-kinect\/"},"modified":"2011-10-21T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:26:21","slug":"microsoft-creates-a-holodesk-with-kinect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/microsoft-creates-a-holodesk-with-kinect\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Creates a &#8220;Holodesk&#8221; with Kinect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.geek.com\/articles\/games\/microsoft-creates-a-holodesk-using-kinect-20111020\/'>Microsoft Creates a &#8220;Holodesk&#8221; with Kinect<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"351\" width=\"580\" alt=\"Holodesk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/holodesk-580x351.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;HoloDesk was developed by the Sensors and Device Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and works by creating a virtual scene of 3D objects for a user to play with. The user sits in front of a transparent optical display and can see 3D objects through it. Using their hands it is possible to grab and manipulate those objects in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the user isn\u2019t actually feeling anything when they touch these virtual objects. The Kinect sensor is just tracking their hands and using a clever algorithm to match them up with the position of the objects in the scene and carry out the manipulations.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s important is the result, though. This looks to be one of the best examples yet of being able to interact with a 3D scene through \u201ctouch\u201d and a natural user interface.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Creates a &#8220;Holodesk&#8221; with Kinect &ldquo;HoloDesk was developed by the Sensors and Device Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and works by creating a virtual scene of 3D objects for a user to play with. The user sits in front of a transparent optical display and can see 3D objects through it. Using their hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}