Pittsburgh-based artist and VJ Riley Harmon has taken Microsoft’s Kinect, whose gestural interface technology has excited hackers the world over, and added the concept of VJ tool to its ever-expanding list of (unintended) uses. You can see him experimenting with the set-up on stage in Pittsburgh in the video above. He uses the OSCulator along with TuioKinect—a hand gesture tracker for Kinect—and openFrameworks to turn the Kinect into a live visual performance tool, creating gesture controlled graphics to accompany the sounds in real time. The days of frantically waving your hands in the air like you just don’t care could be changed forever. Now those movements could be imbued with new meaning and purpose, used to visualise your personal interpretation of the beat, letting the whole club enjoy your crazy shapes.
[via Create Digital Motion]
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