Schlagwort: english

  • Kinect Fusion

    Kinect Fusion is a software prototype demonstrating how Kinect could be used as an interactive 3D-scanner for augmented reality. Maybe it will become the first low-price 3D-Scanner for everyone at home. Quelle: http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Vom-Spielzeug-zum-3-D-Scanner-1353197.html

  • Walking backwards

    Joanne von Rocketboom filmed herself walking backwards, then she played the film backwards, so all other people seem to walk backwards except her walking forwards. Understood? Just watch the film:

  • Next generation touchscreen?

    Portico is a prototype using a laptop equipped with two cameras in order to demonstrate new ways of tangible interaction on and around its display.

  • Extreme sports compilation

    Impressive sport stunts.

  • Dancing robot for autistic people

    A robot developed for autistic people becomes a popular toy for children. Quelle: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27139/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-08

  • wi-GO

    wi-GO is a moveable robot system which can follow and carry objects behind a person. wi-Go is based on the Kinect sensor.

  • Emotion Technology

    Rosalind Picard, from MIT Media Lab, talks about emotion technology at TED. The question is how computers become able to detect and interpret the mental state, facial expressions, or moods. See also http://affect.media.mit.edu/projects.php

  • Unreal Developement Kit

    Recently I learned that the Unreal Developement Kit (or UDK) is a free toolset for developing non-commercial games or simulations and it also comes without restrictions. „What is UDK?“ quoted from the UDK website: „UDK is Unreal Engine 3 – a complete professional development framework. All the tools you need to create great games, advanced…

  • Unity localization

    Unfortunately Unity doesn’t support a native localization system. I tried using Resources (.resx) from Visual Studio in Unity, but it couldn’t be initialized: MissingManifestResourceException: Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure „Irrelevant.Assets.Test.resources“ was correctly embedded or linked into assembly „e46f0a679b15cf745b8e1be9f452390f“ at compile time, or that all…

  • Unity terrain tutorials

    Here is a great tutorial series about creating terrains in Unity. And one tip: using a heightmap generator like HME or Terragen classics saves a lot of time. Both tools are free (Terragen for non-commercial use only) and both can generate and smooth heightmaps automatically. These tools are also great for generating skyboxes. There are…