Simple jQuery-Plugin as API

[ghost]

Dear folks at the MIT,
it is really a great work you did until now!
Would be nice to see a fully working jQuery-Plugin to work with, as a DeptJS API, like it is now (more or less) in event_handlers.js and depthose.js:

[code]
$(window).bind('kinect_handopen', function(e){ ... code ... })
[/code]

and so on... if possible also for a support for the left and right hand or even fingers like:

[code]
$(window).bind('kinect_swiperight', function(e){ if(e.type === 'left') alert('left hand just swiped to the right side!'); })
[/code]

... this would be awesome to work with!

[azinman]

That's the plan. We are still working on making the gestures more robust. We have hand tracking down very well, and even swipes, but hand opening/closing/pinching isn't there and we want it to be before we release.

Maybe that's a mistake and we should get basic hand tracking out sooner?

[ghost]

IMHO you should release everything you have, as soon as it is stable and able to use - assuming there is also a well written documentation shipped with the first release and you have a useful (jQuery-plugin) versioning system.

In this "release early" way, the actual codebase can already be tested while you are working and you will receive meaningful feedback from us - the users/developers ;)

BTW: I'm planning a HTML5 online DJ-set, so this basic gestures will do it for me for the start...

[azinman]

Interesting. I'd love for you to be a test candidate! You can even get started on that right now with what we have...even though its non-optimal.

The bigger problem is having to build the extension. We found a 3rd party library we were using to not be reliable and very buggy. Building NSAPI extensions is non-trivial, especially cross-platform and cross-browser, so it'll take a bit of time. More than we anticipated :(

Aaron

[ghost]

Would really be happy to test a beta-version especially with an easy-to-install plugin for firefox/safari/chrome(under WIN), and I really do think, that is (a / the) future for web-developing...

for demo-purpose, it would be easy to hook up something like http://addyosmani.com/resources/coverflow/demo/demo.html as a web-musicplayer, or even a cool picture-gallery like http://eyecon.ro/spacegallery/ !

LATER: If there is an easy way for endusers, I can build an installation-webseite like http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer/ with browser-detection!

[ghost]

Isn't that the codebase you wanted?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoP6bN2dME4

[ghost]

It's been like ages, when you first presented DepthJS ... and nothing reallly changed since then :(
Whill there be updates in the near future(1-2 months)?

[azinman]

Yes actually. For next week in fact. It'll be sponsor week here at the Media Lab and we intend to have a paired down more robust demo that we can then finally release at least the chome extension for.

Aaron

aaron zinman :: mit media lab :: http://web.media.mit.edu/~azinman :: protocol.by/azinman

On Friday, April 8, 2011 at 1:07 PM, davidflo wrote:
It's been like ages, when you first presented DepthJS ... and nothing reallly changed since then :(

Whill there be updates in the near future(1-2 months)?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
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[ghost]

If there will be binaries(dll, etc.) for chrome, would it be possible to
build a Firefox extension too... since it has a much bigger userbase!?!
Wish you all the best and a good motivation while coding ;)

David

[ghost]

A lot of time went by, but there is still no real "easy to install" plugin for firefox/chrome/safari, that will work out of the box with JavaScript....

-> http://www.kinecthacks.nl/kinect-tutorial-3-setting-up-openni-and-nite-on-windows-for-kinect/

Hope something happens really soon, or this (cool) project will die :/ :/ :/