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Optical Camouflage Puts Kinect Into Stealth Mode

Posted by timothy on from the where-are-you-anyhow dept.

UgLyPuNk writes "Takayuki Fukatsu, a Japanese coder who works under the name Art & Mobile, has done a bit of trickery with Kinect and openFrameworks. The peripheral will still track your movement and position, but turns your image nearly transparent. Take a look (it's particularly obvious at about 1:30):"

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  1. The background doesn't change by igreaterthanu · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article states that he hasn't said how it is filling in the gaps, it's really easy to fill in the changes in the background with a static image and this may be how he is doing it, I could achieve the same effect with a regular webcam.

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    1. Re:The background doesn't change by Sockatume · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's a shade more sophisticated than that. I think he's using the existing make-a-texture-mapped-model-of-the-space code, but telling it to texture map anything that's non-background with an pre-existing image of the background. It's a cute project, obviously intended to recreate the look of the sci-fi cloaking effect, rather than do anything clever. After all, you could achieve a much more effective result by just replacing the feed with one in which the person was not present.

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    2. Re:The background doesn't change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      The pink border is the wallpaper of his desktop computer. He is taking a video to his monitor.

  2. a bit slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/02/kinect-now-offers-a-stealth-mode-courtesy-of-optical-camouflage/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qhXQ_1CQjg