Remember the days where it took the very least to amuse us and keep us entertained for hours? Ah, the good old days. Well, with Kinect we have a way to relive one of the best past times of our childhood – with shadow puppets.
In a demonstration by Design I/O, we see how Kinect is used to make shadow puppets come to life. Kinect’s software not only recognizes the X and Y axes of your arm’s positions, but also its Z axis, which means that you can turn your hands toward you and Kinect would sense this. In essence, you would be turning a shadow puppet towards you and speak to it, and Kinect would sense it.
“We can do stuff when another person touches the projection, or is near – i.e. have the birds react, stare, etc,” the team notes in comments on the video. “For the simple silhouette isolation you are right, the Kinect just makes it super easy – but for what we have in mind there will be a lot of fun stuff we can add using the device.”
With this kind of concept, what else do you think we could bring to life with Kinect? Take a look at the demonstration below.