You all know that I am a big fan of the Kinect. My story in the virtual reality ecosystem is deeply interwoven to the presence of this sensor, since I entered the VR field in 2014 with a startup on full body virtual reality (called Immotionar) that was able to offer the user its full […]
You know how much I’ve loved the Kinect sensor: it has been a companion for my three-year virtual reality startup adventure and during all this time I’ve appreciated its endless functionalities and possibilities, especially in connection with virtual reality. Having full body virtual reality without wearing any marker or suit is a dream for us […]
Today I want to talk with you about a quick fix regarding the Microsoft Kinect v2 and Windows 10. If you’re having problems in using Kinect with your Windows 10 PC, laptop or Surface book, keep on reading.
I was sharing yesterday post on Hacker News, when I gave a look to the latest post on that social network. Its title was “Microsoft Kinect is dead” and I had quite a shock. I went through the 5 stages of grief, quickly negating the fact that that one could be the truth: “It is […]
One of the reasons my VR startup failed has been because we relied on Kinect to perform full body tracking, but Kinect has start dying in 2015 and now the project is something like a zombie. We were looking for a substitute and we put our trust on a little startup called Orbbec, who started […]
A lot of time ago I described you how cool is VRIdge, the solution that makes you play SteamVR games using a cheap Cardboard or GearVR headset. I love VRidge, not only because it allows people to lower the entry point for playing VR experiences (a Cardboard is surely cheaper than a Vive), but also […]
I just wrote a mega-article on Medium talking about how I started working with full body virtual reality, why I think it is important and what are current solutions to implement it. If you have some minutes spare… well, take a read of it! You can find it here. (There of course I say that […]
When I talk about the full body virtual reality system ImmotionRoom that we’re developing at Immotionar, the first question that people asks me is always “Why Kinect? Kinect is dead”. I’ve already answered to this question, explaining that yes, it is slowly dying, but Kinect is still the best off-the-shelf infrared body-tracking sensor that we […]
Yesterday we of Immotionar have announced the support of Kinect v1 for our full-body virtual reality system. To implement it, I had to work with this sensor, after more than 2 years of work with only the v2 version. A curious fact is that i had never worked with Kinect v1 before, I started directly […]
At Immotionar, we try to give full body avatar to the user using external sensors. At the moment we use Microsoft Kinect v2 for our prototype and the question that all people ask us is: Why do you use Kinect, if Kinect is dead? Well, I’m actually getting bored of answering this question… and that’s […]
I’m proud to announce that we of ImmotionAR, with the help of some sponsors and some friends of Gianni’s (that are Microsoft MVP like him) are organizing a super-cool conference here in Turin, Italy about new disruptive technologies! We’ll talk about virtual reality and will showcase our full-body VR solution ImmotionRoom There will also be […]
