Modeling Maya and Unity have a 1:1 scale ratio, which is in Meters. A 1x1x1 meter cube in Maya is equal to a 1x1x1 cube in Unity. However, Unity imports models at a 0.01 scale. Import Scale can be changed in the Import Settings in the Inspector. Try to keep the model’s polygon count under 6000 triangles (see Figure 1)… Read more →
Category: SWEAT 3.0
How Retail Stores Track You Using Your Smartphone (and How to Stop It)
The New York Times broke the story earlier this week that a number of retail stores are either experimenting with or actively using technology that uses your phone’s Wi-Fi to track your movements around the store. We’re not talking about location within a few meters either—we’re talking about exact location. via How Retail Stores Track You Using Your Smartphone (and… Read more →
Aspect Ratio
It appears as though ZigFu + Unity + Kinect requires a 640 x 480 aspect ratio. This is a small bit of knowledge that might get lost. OpenTSPS doesn’t seem to have made Andre mess with aspect ratios Read more →
Kinect trigonometry
Ben compares floor and ceiling sensors
Kinect ceiling mount experiment 1
kinect live area marked on hypercube floor
from left to right, Esteban, Tommy Hoffman (standing), Ben (seated), and Andre Blyth. Read more →
shake’n’Sense.pdf
shake’n’Sense.pdf. The official Microsoft Research response to overlapping Kinect fields of view, attach a vibrator to each one, at a different frequency. Read more →
The Twelve-Foot Network | Seespace Labs
Now I need it to work with six Kinects and three projected screens. Each pair of Kinects needs one “K2Net Node,” which is a computer that converts USB data to Ethernet traffic. The K2Nets feed data into the “Model Server”, which is a computer that keeps a single combined set of data from all six Kinects. Each screen needs one… Read more →
Ceiling Mount Kinects | Seespace Labs
So what I wanted was to find some place on the plastic case where I could safely put a screw in. This screw would hold a bracket that fastened the little rig to the ceiling. Tonight, I took apart one of my Kinects to look for a good trepanning location–somewhere I could drill a hole to add a new screw… Read more →