The 3D scanning software we built now allows for live reconstruction of the images as we scan them. We wrote this UI in the few days before Maker Faire, and got to show it off all weekend. It was very well received, but it also had a significance that goes back several years:

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In 2003 I took over 500 pictures of my room with the hope that ( Read more... )

This is the project that Dave and I have been working on:

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Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to capture 3D objects and scenes from the physical world, turning them into virtual objects for use online. We believe that making 3D capture as easy and as simple as digital photography will profoundly shift how we process and share visual ( Read more... )

It's amazing how much our vision can be fooled by lack of adequate contextual cues when looking at an image.

This really looks like a bunch of toy cars and airplanes that some kids accidentally left on a beach.


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This video reminded me of how a lot of our dreams about robotics over the last 50 years are coming to fruition.  Ideas that have been dreams long deferred are starting to roll out quickly in research labs.  There are of course significant barriers to deploying some of these systems for consumer use but I expect that to change quickly ( Read more... )

I've been working on other things with the Kinect, but I do want to keep making multiple reality videos.

I got a couple of friends who do acroyoga to come over.  Here's what we made:

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In case you haven't been following along:

I wrote some software to merge multiple 3D video streams captured by the Kinect into a single 3D space. Objects from each video ( Read more... )

As most of you know, I've spent the vast majority of the last 2 years not working -- instead I've chosen to focus on developing other skills and experiences, including traveling the world, fixing my insomnia, improving my nutrition, developing an exercise plan that's changed my body, improved my health, and taught me lots of fun physical skills ( ( Read more... )

 Lest I be getting lazy on a Friday night, I made a 3rd Kinect video.   Here is another fun thing you can do with your own software on a 3D camera:

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By taking a 3D snapshot of the room with furniture in it, I can remove the furniture and then wander in the 3d "ghost" space left behind.

 

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I made some improvements to my program from yesterday.  Now I can control how multiple RGB/Depth images are merged together to create a virtual 3D sculpture I can walk through.  This stuff is seriously fun.

Videosurf is a new video search engine that has somehow managed to design a better video search site than Youtube while getting permission from Youtube to use their entire database as well as the databases of other sites.  The interface is even more Google-y than Youtube -- it lets you refine the search by video length and other information, and ( Read more... )

I'm giving a computer vision talk at the H+ conference on Dec 5-6 in Irvine near Los Angeles. I could just pop in and out of there via the Santa Ana airport, or I could turn it into an interesting adventure through LA. Anyone interested in meeting up?