Comment Stupid (Score 1) 1219
Posted by timothy on 2011-01-01 1:02
from the ends-justify-the-means dept.
schwit1 writes "With New Year's Eve only days away,
Posted by timothy on 2011-01-01 1:02
from the ends-justify-the-means dept.
schwit1 writes "With New Year's Eve only days away,
Can't speak for GP but I've done better using just a JPEG of a background. You can't see when I move at all.
Are you joking? The whole point is to be able to see when he moves. It's a special effect to show a sci-fi kind of "cloaking". Sure you could implement something similar with a standard webcam, but the novelty here is that he seems to use the Kinect's depth information to work out how much distortion/lensing effect to apply. Hence when he stands against the bookshelf in the background, he disappears completely.
I'm pretty sure I remember coming across a news piece that said exactly this a good 10-20 years ago..
Yep, it's old news. Here's an article from 2004, about some research done in the UK: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040412.html
Here's the summary of the paper at ACM.org: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=993187
You can find also find the PDF.
lolwut? facebook/myspace/craigslist/etc/etc/etc.
But hey, a lot of people are on facebook, let's blame it on that.
You do realise that Britain is not part of the United States, don't you?
From http://www.clickymedia.co.uk/2009/07/uk-social-network-statistics-july-2009/
Facebook has long been the UK’s most popular Social Networking site and now has over 19 million active users. In May 2009 alone Facebook.com received 23.9 million visitors in the UK. Other popular social networking sites continued to struggle to keep up with Facebook – Bebo followed as the second most visited UK Social Network (8.5 million visitors), then Windows Live Profile (6.9 million visitors) and MySpace Sites (6.5 million visitors)...
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