kinect

getting started with kinect

First tired out the depth.js library to give the chrome and safari extensions a go. neither of them worked out of the box with my osx 10.7 setup. Reverted to use more modular approach

Starting out with the the following tutorial
http://tohmjudson.com/?p=30

The openni binaries mentioned in the tutorial above is abit hidden but can be found on the following url
http://www.openni.org/downloadfiles/opennimodules/openni-binaries/20-latest-unstable

Read up how people wired it up with processing
http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2011/02/16/skeleton-tracking-with-kinect-and-processing/

had some problems with calibration but this page and the linked video sorted it out
http://groups.google.com/group/osceleton/browse_thread/thread/fc50240d4ec0a752

localhost now runs a udp server on localhost that spits out the skeleton data. next up is a node.js with socket.io server to format and decode gestures and relay them over websockets to browsers.
http://nodejs.org/ & http://socket.io/

Starting out with basic node server like this:

var dgram = require("dgram");

var server = dgram.createSocket("udp4");

server.on("message", function (msg, rinfo) {
  console.log("server got: " + msg + " from " +
    rinfo.address + ":" + rinfo.port);
});

server.on("listening", function () {
  var address = server.address();
  console.log("server listening " +
      address.address + ":" + address.port);
});

server.bind(7110);


Took a few steps back to processing, started working with the simple openni library for processing
http://chailight.com/2011/05/02/simpleni-processing-version-of-osceleton/
http://chailight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/simpleopenni_userosc.pde
http://code.google.com/p/simple-openni/