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Kinect's Grandaddy Running On an Apple IIe In 1978
An anonymous reader writes "30 years before words like performance capture, augmented reality, or avatars were around — let alone commonplace — experimental film and video artist Tom DeWitt created a system that features aspects of all of them. Pantomation let users interact in real-time with a digital environment and props. It was built using Apple IIe's, analog video gear, and lots of custom hacking and patching. He's currently working on a holographic 3D system that's similarly ahead of its time."
Phantomation: Kinect, I am your Father.
Kinect: That's impossible!
Phantomation: Look into your source code, you know it to be true!
Kinect: Nooooooo!!!!!