Kinect Used To Create Holographic TV
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Published: 12:45, 24/01/2011 by Tuffcub.
36A team at MIT Media Labs have used a single Kinect camera and standard graphics chips to create a holographic system. The Kinect camera captures around 15 frames of data a second which is fed in to an ordinary laptop. The data is then transmitted across the internet and received by a PC with three standard GPUs which regenerates the image as a hologram.
Sadly, the one piece of equipment you cannot buy from your local PC World to recreate the demo is the holographic imaging system, although MIT are developing a new display that will be smaller and cheaper to produce.
Prepare for a geekgasm: To demo the system MIT first transmitted images of a paper crane but then grad student Edwina Portocarrer donned a wig, tunic and those oh-so-iconic hair buns to recreate the famous ‘Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi’ scene from Star Wars.
The resolution of the demo is rather less than the special effects of Star Wars but MIT point out, “Princess Leia wasn’t being transmitted in real time. She was stored.”
Source: TG Daily
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24/01/2011 at 12:47
Member since: Jan 2010
Another step towards the destined road to ‘Holodecks’ from Star Trek.
24/01/2011 at 12:47
Member since: Oct 2008
Oh my god! The future is here!
24/01/2011 at 12:53
Member since: Sep 2009
star wars was “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away” so your sentence should read “the past is here!”
*goes back to counting his star wars trading cards*
24/01/2011 at 12:59
Member since: Apr 2010
Long ago, yet somehow far into the future, in a time after M*A*S*H, yet before after M*A*S*H…
24/01/2011 at 13:02
Member since: Oct 2008
Ow, my head.
24/01/2011 at 12:53
Member since: Jun 2009
good lord, thats a bit scary.
24/01/2011 at 12:54
Member since: Apr 2010
Shame, if Kinect could run holographics as standard that would make me take back every doubt I had about it. Unfortunately it doesn’t even sound possible on only one PC let alone one 360. Does anyone else find it slightly ironic that Kinect, and 360 specific peripheral is having better products with hacks on PCs?
24/01/2011 at 13:13
Member since: Forever
Producing a control method or a tech demo is very different to making a marketable game.
I think its a missed opportunity for MS, because surely Kinect devs experiments in similar ways to this, but MS only allowed vids of saccharine-sweet families hi-fiving each other, whilst Sony were showing off PS Move Richard Marks’ tech demos to fan-gasms everywhere. I think it’s a course of action that lost MS a lot of good will amongst gamers for its peripheral although MS were probably too busy chasing the Wii upgraders market
24/01/2011 at 13:42
Member since: Jul 2009
Exactly. MS aren’t worried about the hardcore gamer on the 360. Sure, it’s nice if they pick one up too but they want a slice of the Wii market. Faked footage, staged demos that aren’t live at all. Who cares? If the average consumer is fooled into thinking it’s the best thing since Kelly Brook appeared naked in the film Piranha, then people will lap it up.
24/01/2011 at 13:52
Member since: Apr 2010
I agree, the most annoying part about Kinect really is the looming brick wall that it’s dashing towards. Kinect could do a lot with peripherals, but MS made too big a deal of the ‘you are the controller’ bit to go back on their word.
24/01/2011 at 13:50
Member since: Jul 2010
You must use the force wisely, Luke.
What! Who said that!
24/01/2011 at 14:50
Member since: Sep 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LW8wgmfpTE
There you go the videos on You Tube not that you can really make out what the hologram looks like?
24/01/2011 at 19:42
Member since: Sep 2009
I’m confused what exactly is the Kinect doing in this process? It seems to use laptops, graphics chips, the internet and some fancy holographic machinery at the receiving end – so as far as it reads to me all the Kinect is doing is sending the video/motion capture to the laptop for transmission? Unless I’m missing something it hardly sounds like Kinect was integral to this process, just a convenient means of capturing the source data? The headline makes it sound like the image was beamed directly out of the Kinect camera or something!
26/01/2011 at 21:48
Member since: Sep 2010
my thoughts exactly,i dont know how kinect fits into the whole story
24/01/2011 at 20:36
Member since: Oct 2008
Well, I’ll be skipping the 3D gen, and waiting for holograms!