Tag Archives: iPad

Alternative camera tracking systems: Asus Xtion Pro and structure.io

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Asus have an alternative to Kinect One and Playstation 4 cameras:
http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Xtion_PRO/

Also for mobile devices especially iPAD
http://structure.io/getstarted

While the Structure Sensor has been carefully designed to work exceptionally well with iOS devices, it has also been designed to work with a wide range of other devices and platforms, including Android devices, and Windows, OS X and Android laptop and desktop PCs.

To use the Structure Sensor with any of these alternative platforms, you will need the USB Hacker Cable as well as OpenNI 2 drivers, which can be downloaded on our OpenNI 2 page. More information on using the Structure Sensor with OpenNI 2 drivers can be found in the Structure Sensor and SDK Forums

OpenNI, not sure if it is actively developed. Refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNI

After the acquisition of PrimeSense by Apple, it was announced that the website OpenNI.org would be shut down on April 23, 2014.[7] Immediately after the shutdown, organizations that used OpenNI subsequently preserved documentation and binaries for future use, such as the page at Structure.io

HTML5 and touch screens

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I will be giving a talk on Monday on playful touchscreen interfaces and although built in Flash, Li Wang’s touch screen taoist games may now also work in html 5, and across PC, touch screen PC and mobile touch screens! Great progress seems to have been made.

Some reference links for further exploring

  1. sketchpad online drawing app http://mudcu.be/sketchpad/
  2. tutorial http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/cross-device/
  3. msdn and touchscreen http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh563503.aspx
  4. with flash http://www.2morodocs.com/2010/05/think-outside-the-computer-touchscreens-html5-flash/
  5. html 5 game examples http://html5games.com/category/iphoneipadmobile/
  6. html 5 drawing on an ipad http://tenderlovingcode.com/blog/web-apps/html5-canvas-drawing-on-ipad/

WordPress for iOS

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so even wordpress is creating new UIs for the iPAD (even if the iOS is not really unique-yet-grumble grumble).

But now even I am beginning to see the value of the iPAD to the point of even purchasing one–is there a stand to use it with Unity 3D games? And a webcam for augmented reality interaction?
And a stylus to use as a secondary monitor for collaborative sketch applications? Now that would be useful. As well as a less fragile look.

where to with the iPad

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Unbelievably apple.com pointed to a review by engadget of the new iPad. Unbelievably, because the reviews by engadget (who are normally Apple-friendly) are not enthusiastic. They correctly (unlike journalists) mention it is a super-sized iPod touch rather than the iPhone, and mention the lack of video, multi-tasking and Flash. I am not convinced HTML 5 will replace Flash and there does seem to be a great opportunity missed of a portable video conferencing tool.  However the future potential, as a designer tablet, multi camera collaborative video tool and overly expensive (not fragile?) game controller and Augmented Reality item tray have great promise.