[sldev] dorkbot meeting avatar puppeteering and physical interfaces

[Fire in Korea]

The puppetering branch is really exciting. Way to go LL for releasing it to
the Dev community.

After seeing Jonnhy Lee's head tracking video, I'm wondering it if we could
strap a wii remote to each wrist, one on our LCD monitor, wear a head
tracking lights, and have full puppeteering control using our own bodies,
and -- fancy C# programming of course......


Im sure you've already seen Johnny Lee's videos, but here they are again -
and a few other links
truly amazing stuff -

*Head Tracking*
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DGJ4zu9fAkk

*Wii Remote C# Links*
http://churchcrosstalk.typepad.com/jonedmiston/2008/06/c-wii-remote-fu.html*
*Interface for Virtual Earth
http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/10/18/5506286.aspx*

Wii Remote Drivers
*http://www.wiili.org/index.php/Wiimote_driver*

**CAVE VR System*
http://www.visualgenomics.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=120&Itemid=207
http://www.cave.vt.edu/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N6NN5JKlIi0

*Holographic Projection*
http://www.ubiqwindow.jp/
http:/youtube.com/watch?v=WLconRxEyzc


On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net> wrote:

> evolutie wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sunday 6 july at 1 PM PDT at
>> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/85/153/45/ there will be a dorkbot
>> session that I think is interesting for many on this list.
>>
>> JJ Ventrella will present the avatar puppeteering project, for which
>> the client code was recently made available to the community.
>> http://www.avatarpuppeteering.com/
>> Philippe Bossut will present the Segalen / HandsFree3D project. He has
>> developed several demos using 3D camera motion tracking to interface
>> with Second Life, and spent the last weeks on connecting his work to
>> the puppeteering feature.
>> http://www.handsfree3d.com/
>>
>> This will be a good opportunity to get informed, discuss and ask
>> questions concerning these technologies and features, so I hope to see
>> you all there ;-)
>> More in information and links about the event, projects and presenters
>> can be found at
>> http://rhizomatic.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/dorkbot-session-announcement-4/
>>
>> chrz,
>> Evo
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Definitely try to be there. And... I'd like to point out that a "pointing
> device" is probably not the best way to do real-time animation control. 3D
> mocap using a 3D camera might be the most sexy, but there's always multiple
> keypresses (especially on a Mac), and dare I mention MIDI keyboards?
>
> I could see an infinite number of non-mocap interfaces possible for this
> technology, such as the animation equivalent of stroke-based font creation,
> http://www.macintouch.com/gaiji.html, where fundamental units of animation
> movement would mapped to individual keys on a computer or MIDI keyboard and
> evoked by sequences of simple or chorded keypresses. Velocity from a MIDI
> keyboard could corresspond to range of motion, for example, while each
> "note" would correspond to a specific motion or set of motions. Playback
> using MIDI would be possible, and tracks for "avatar animation" could be
> combined with audible MIDI tracks to create a new form of dance animation
> with accompaniment, which could be minutes or even hours long, given the
> relative compression of MIDI over sound or even XML.
>
>
>
> No doubt other input technologies could be devised as well. Perhaps, rather
> than trying to figure out a one-size fits all strategy, or even a handful,
> the best thing to do would be to devise a plug-in architecture to control
> the overall system? And of course, should LL ever get around to defining
> non-humanoid, non-BVH-driven avatars and animation, the system should allow
> for extensions to handle that as well.
>
>
>
>
> L
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