Happy New Year everyone!
The good news is that most of my travelling will now be a thing of the past, at least for a couple of months, as I am getting nice and cozy in my new country of residence. But there’s more! The Kinect arrived, and thanks to the good folks at OpenNI.org and the wonderful openFrameworks people, you will soon be able to play around with it inside Moviesandbox! Yay!

I finally implemented a shared-memory interface that allows sharing large chunks of data between applications, and that allows me to access the depth data of the kinect through openFrameworks.
Here’s two example videos of what that might look like:

Live Kinect Feed in Moviesandbox from Friedrich Kirschner on Vimeo.

and here’s a captured frame. I’m still working on the details, but it’s great fun!

Kinect Couch Capture in Moviesandbox from Friedrich Kirschner on Vimeo.

Also: Moviesandbox now moved to gitHub. In-Between versions will be committed to github, while google Code keeps the “stable” releases. At least that’s the plan.
Looking forward to a productive 2011,

Friedrich Kirschner