Monday, May 30, 2011

wo Kinect Devices And A Projector Combined To Create A 360 Degree Snowglobe Display (video)

Two Kinect Devices And A Projector Combined To Create A 360 Degree Snowglobe Display (video) » Geeky Gadgets

An interesting project on show at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Vancouver combine two Microsoft Kinect devices and a projector, together with a large acrylic global and some custom software and hardware. To present a 360 degree view of an object and which can then track a viewers movements and be controlled by gestures.

“Project Snowglobe” has been designed by students from Queens University and has a hemispherical mirror mounted inside of an acrylic sphere on to which the projector displays its image. Watch the video after the jump to see “Project Snowglobe” in action.

Project Snowglobe

 

The imaged viewed within the globe is not actually in 3D but is moved as the viewer moves around the globe and is tracked by the two Kinect devices.

 

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