Kinect for all Amiga platforms, a new project

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As most people are aware I usually prefer to do my projects quietly and just hopefully deliver when finished. However, I am embarking on this new one that I would like to invite the whole community to work together, in fact it will fail if not a community effort because we need all version to be compatible.

As some may be aware this is actually an old idea that I first saw on an Amiga 2000 in around 1987 not far from where I lived in Harrow. Basically then it was a camera that had digitzed images in real time and they were simply processed to view the motion. Now obviously they had super fast 608030 processors

Now I want to try and support developers on all platforms as a joint effort. I will try and fund raise for this and any developers who want to get involved in a cross platform job please let me know. If you are already working on this perhaps we could talk.

I have always believed this is the way we need to interact with our computers, obviously we will struggle with speech recognition but the rest should be fine once our respective USB stacks have a suitable driver for the Kinect controller.

So what do you think, this has huge potential and I would hate for us to miss out on this, but again, we all need to work together and all flavours can benefit.

Steve

edit:  http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

[clusteruk]

Kind of strange replies, Amiga had this concept first and we should try and get it back.

Oh, well I tried.

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Come on, can you think of any existing Amiga games that would benefit from the Kinect?

I am not interested in games, think outside the obvious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRPEns8MS2o

There are so many things that can be done with this, this is the start of a new type of computing where the computer can see and tell what you are doing. Good and bad uses, but unbelievable amount of uses.

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Posted by Fransexy, this is a great example.

http://www.vimeo.com/16985224

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@Linde

I never said it was stolen, what I said was I saw this concept on Amiga first back in 1987 but it had no depth ability just 2d view.

I believe the developers went to sony and developed EyeToy but I could be wrong on that.

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@orb85750

Just because Microsoft has spent a fortune does not mean that the open source drivers can not be excellent to.

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But even if you would be able to port the open source driver, and though a 68060 might just be fast enough to capture the two video streams in realtime, it is very much impossible to process the image data in time to obtain useful information from it.

Sorry, this seems to be a pointless effort to me.

Oh, ok, so because the classics cannot process this data, that is not not worth the rest of us to have it. After all I have 3.5ghz with Aros, and AOS4 will have 1.8ghz and MorphOS I believe up to 2ghz at moment.

Sorry for Classic machines but maybe bits can be used if we get this off the ground.

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Which part of "there is no support for realtime ISO on AROS, Morphos and AOS4" didn't you understand?

I fully understand the problems we face in impplementing this, hence why I cannot do it alone with one or two coders. The question is do people want to get behind it or not and that is what I am trying to find out.

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Just an update, it appears Microsoft believe in Kinnect for things other than games as well.

http://www.osnews.com/story/24053/Microsoft_Wants_You_to_Hack_Kinect

We have only seen the beggining of Kinect, and expect other controller models.