Kinect Effect / twofifteenmccann for Microsoft
Microsoft has been on a roll, as of late, with their advertising campaigns. We recently featured their inspiring short that envisioned Microsoft Office in the future, in the spot titled, Productivity Future Vision. This commercial celebrates and embraces how people have taken to their Xbox Kinect Camera and unpredictably modified them, hacked them, and put them […]
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Kinect Graffiti™
Kinect Graffiti™ is a digital graffiti tool using “Microsoft Kinect” camera. Idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, Understanding surrounding space, pausing the time, etc… Kinect Graffiti™ is a tool built in processing & openGL, SimpleOpenNI, openNI […]
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Kinect Hack: Lasers + Ableton Live
We recently featured the Kinect Graffiti™, here is another interesting Kinect modification. Matt Davis of the multimedia artist group,
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Contour & Shape / Denial of Service
Have a look at this glitched video by audio/visual engineer, Denail of Service. Equipped with a Microsoft Kinect and an array of software packages, the artist captured Z data to produce multi layered visuals tracing both camera and audio output. You can see more videos from Denial of Service HERE.
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Ghost / Thomas Eberwein, Thomas Traum and Tim Gfrerer
The scene is seen through a camera roaming over the landscape, with the environment transitioniong through a set of pre-defined moods. Landscape moods influence the intensity of the storm, the music, the fog colour and the sound effects. The scene may transition from intense, loud and aggressive storms to gentle, quiet snow flurries. When a visitor […]
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Firewall (Interactive Media Installation) / Aaron Sherwood x Mike Allison
Aaron Sherwood: Firewall is an interactive media installation created in collaboration with Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals as well as expressively play music. The original concept stems from a performance piece I’m currently developing as Purring Tiger (with Kiori Kawai) […]
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KURATAS / Suidobashi Heavy Industry (Kogoro Kurata & Wataru Yoshizaki)
Japanese electronics company, Suidobashi Heavy Industry, has unveiled, over the past weekend at Tokyo’s Wonder Festival (in Makuhari just outside Tokyo), a 13 ft super-robot which can be controlled by any smartphone. This mind-blowing mecha robot is equipped with a weapons system, a gatling gun capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute; the guns fire when the […]
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Superslice 30: Best of 2011
It’s been a dense inaugural year for our cultural online magazine and site known as The Superslice™. With the close of 2011, we present our favorite featured posts that have highlighted a great year. Here is the ‘Super 30’: 1. Marco Brambilla: The Dark Lining @ SMMoA A marvelous commingling of art, technology, and popular culture. […]
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Nap On The Bow / New Look
Here is the video for Nap On The Bow by Canadian future-pop duo New Look. The music video was entirely shot using the Xbox Kinect Camera. Innovative, beautiful and delicate. The Making of by Tim & Joe: The Concept Listening to Nap On The Bow we instantly felt we wanted to create something with an […]
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Chase No Face / BELL
We’ve featured several Kinect hacks including the Kinect Graffiti™ and we’ve seen it hooked up to Ableton Live. Here is a new application; using FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih, a hacked Kinect, laptop and LED projector, Zach Lieberman, Francisco Zamorano, Andy Wallace, and Michelle Calabro have created real-time visuals for the Brooklyn-based artist and singer Olga […]
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