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Spacebrew Tutorial 2: Chatting, Setting up a Spacebrew server on Amazon EC2

Posted by Omer

20 Feb 2013 — No Comments

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This week, Ryan Bartley and I set out to Brad's at NYU. We set up a node.js server on an Amazon EC2 instance, ran spacebrew on it, and wrote a little chat program to communicate. We also had too many beers. Enjoy.

Spacebrew Tutorial 1: Hosting node.js on your laptop, in a pub

Posted by Omer

13 Feb 2013 — No Comments

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This week, Ryan Bartley and I started making spacebrew tutorials in pubs. The first installment discusses starting a spacebrew server on your own computer, using WiFi you stole at Spike Hill, Williamsburg.

ForceField Update #2

Posted by Omer

26 Jan 2012 — No Comments

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ForceField has now been updated to allow beter modeling, higher depth resolution, and better calibration. Oh yeah, and it now plays sounds.

Here are some changes:

  • Screen Modeling: Instead of using inverse bilinear interpolation, we now use 3D rotation matrices, multiplied by stretch matrices.
  • Hand Recognition using OpenCV
  • MIDI using the processing library, The Midi Bus

ForceField update #1

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29 Dec 2011 — No Comments

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Kinect, Processing, Projector, bridal veil.

This is a project I've been working on with Ohad Ron: an audiovisual feedback system to gestures. It uses spatial segmentation with readings from Kinect and some Computer Vision, and outputs to MIDI.

Here's a demo: