Kinect Hacker Gives Juggling Skills to Minecraft Monuments

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Kinect Hacker Gives Juggling Skills to Minecraft Monuments


The Kinect hacker that made himself into a bunch of Minecraft monuments has now put those monuments in motion.

The second phase of Nathan Viniconis' Minecraft monument-creating Kinect hack [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106836-Kinect-Hack-Turns-Minecraft-Players-Into-Giant-Monuments] has brought those monuments to life. Now the hack not only creates Minecraft representations of the people and objects Viniconis places in from of his Kinect, but shows them moving around while made of Minecraft blocks.

The first phase took pictures of Viniconis and his girlfriend and represented them as best the hack could in Minecraft. After phase two, those models can be scaled, so if you want a smaller Minecraft tribute to yourself that's okay too.

The color-matching abilities of the hack have also been improved, and hack users can customize the block types they want their monuments to be made out of. The coolest part of phase two is how Viniconis demonstrates, on video, the hack animating his Minecraft monument at 30 FPS while he juggles three balls, all created in the game. This is evidently a form of stop-motion animation.

And finally, he reveals that his hack can not only put versions of ourselves into Minecraft, but our pets as well. His cat, Cashew, is shown twirling around the world of Minecraft, made of blocks. My dream of a Minecraft world filled with cute dogs has come true.

What could await us in Viniconis' phase three?

Source: Joystiq [http://www.orderofevents.com/MineCraft/KinectInfo.htm]

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microhive

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So in essence by using Kinect we can actually create real time PVP battlegrounds on our dining tables. Sounds like fun to me.

I'd totally go all out Godzilla on the table and squash those miners!
 

Sneaky Paladin

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Holy shit. We are in the goddamn future. With this and the kinect wiimote and headset thing things are looking pretty sweet for this future
 

JourneyThroughHell

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This is the best thing I've seen come out of the Kinect and I don't even dislike that thing that much.

It is truly awesome and really potentially great for some cool Minecraft architecture.
 

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I just realized that Minecraft SHOULD have cute little dogs that follow you around if you "use" bread or pork on it, to "tame" or whatever? That would be sweet! Notch, please build that!

OT: Crazy shit is Crazy!
 

Skorpyo

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Someone somewhere is now required to make a movie out of this.
 

Frapple

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1. Create entire city from wood
2. Buy godzilla suit, set material type to lava
3. ???
4. Profit!
 

manythings

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danpascooch said:
So he made them move WHILE he was in the game? How is that even possible?
His kinect camera is sending the data into minecraft and some translation programme is turning that data into minecraft blocks.
 

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manythings said:
danpascooch said:
So he made them move WHILE he was in the game? How is that even possible?
His kinect camera is sending the data into minecraft and some translation programme is turning that data into minecraft blocks.
Yeah, but most map editors require that the file not be currently read or written to while using it, which to be honest, is something almost EVERYTHING requires, I'm more impressed that he can edit the maps while Minecraft is using them then the actual Kinect hack!
 

manythings

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danpascooch said:
manythings said:
danpascooch said:
So he made them move WHILE he was in the game? How is that even possible?
His kinect camera is sending the data into minecraft and some translation programme is turning that data into minecraft blocks.
Yeah, but most map editors require that the file not be currently read or written to while using it, which to be honest, is something almost EVERYTHING requires, I'm more impressed that he can edit the maps while Minecraft is using them then the actual Kinect hack!
Well it's not so much moving as changing so maybe it is a preset collection of pictures taken by the Kinect and set in a cycle. Each picture gets ported in turn providing the illusion of movement.
 

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Darth IB said:
So, how many days until someone uses this technology to make a minecraft-porno?
Pff, if it's not already out it's probably in the making already xD

Pretty good, sooo can he play on servers with people online and be like the tallest doctor from scrubs? :3