Making Things Interact Class - Spring 2010 Carnegie Mellon University
Developed by Cooper Sanghyun Yoo
Instructed by Prof. Mark D Gross
Digital Puppet uses a wood cross bar which has a Wii Remote inside. It has same traditional interface by using vertical or horizontal control of the bar. Pinch the bar to control the puppet turn left or right, and roll the bar to control it’s jaw and head.
Ps. I visited CMU Interative class once. There are a lot of intertesting projects. But I think this project is too easy for their students. Ha!
With Shadow Play apps you can record with a simple webcam your own theatre play, stand up comedy or what ever you like and share it with your audiences and friends on internet like Facebook or Youtube.
The system is doing skeleton tracking on the arm and determining where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is, using it to control the movement and posture of the giant funky bird!
The QUMA (pronounced Cooma), from Japanese company SoftEther, works kind of like those 3D wooden mannequins that artists often pose when sketching the human body. Except that the QUMA connects to your PC over USB, and the majority of the puppets’ joints feature sensors that not only detect when they’ve been moved and adjusted, but also translate those movements to the character in your 3D software.
Japan-based SoftEther has developed a 3D motion-capture figure to create computer graphics and animations in 3D. Known as the QUMA, this human-like doll has a set of joints throughout its body, all of which are equipped with sensors and can be moved freely by the user. The QUMA motion capture puppet is ideal for designers and engineers to create 3D CG animation. Watch the video after the jump.
