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Oculus Rift, Kinect and Drone completed

Posted on 25/08/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla

Recently I completed my experiment with the Oculus Rift and a Kinect to drive a Parrot Ar.Drone. Using Kinect I implemented both voice commands and gestures to drive the drone. With voice commands, I ... Read More

Experiments with Oculus Rift, Kinect and a drone

Posted on 27/07/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla

Recently, thanks to my friends at Digitalmind, I was able to put my hands on an Oculus rift’s developer kit and an Ar.Drone. I wanted to start by simply streaming the video feed of the parrot to... Read More

A face tracking sample with XNA and Emgu

Posted on 07/10/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla

In my previous post, we saw how to implement a simple stream from a web cam as a background in an XNA application. Now I will go a little further and implement a simple face tracking algorithm. For th... Read More

XNA and webcam stream as background

Posted on 30/09/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla

Recently I worked on a XNA project that needed to show the stream from a web cam as the background of the game. After some searches I found nothing that worked with XNA 4.0. So I ended up putting toge... Read More