Kinect working with AR Drone footage

Published 11 April, 2011 Duration 4:02

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  • Whitster #1 1 year ago

    I, for one, can't wait for the day when wars are fought by warehouses full of soliders controlling drones like this!

  • Whitster #2 1 year ago

    I, for one, can't wait for the day when wars are fought by warehouses full of soliders controlling drones like this!

  • jag10 #3 1 year ago

    would be good for a drunk pilot simulation.

  • Buenos_Estente #4 1 year ago

    I bet thier arms ache

  • grussbarbar #5 1 year ago

    I, for one, can't wait until wars aren't fought anymore...

    Anyway, I don't really see a point to this video/demo. Surely it would be much easier and much more effective to use a regular controller?
    Or if you do want to use Kinect, it would be much more impressive if you could use just one hand to control it. Point your hand/arm left or right to move it left or right, close your fist to just let it hover, stuff like that.

  • SwedBear #6 1 year ago

    The point with this video, just like any other Kinnect video, is that it is geeks having fun trying out new stuff with Kinnect. 99.9% of these projects proiably won't lead to anything usefull but maybe it is enough that 0.1% does or that they learn something in the progress of just having mindless fun.

    I agree it would be cooler if you just could do it with one hand but what is it to say this isn't just theirfirst version and that they will be able to make it better as they experient more.

    I wish I was working/studying somewhere where I could be part of this as it just would be fun to see what you could come up with with the Kinnect (I guess I could do it myself at home but with small kids + full time work there isn't much tim)

  • bumgut #7 1 year ago

    surely a controller has more axes of control for a copter than a fatty waving straightened arms around?

  • grussbarbar #8 1 year ago

    @SwedBear:
    Fair enough, and I do I fully agree it has a point for the people working on it. I'd love to be able to mess around with it myself. =)

    I don't really see the point in Eurogamer posting it though...? I dunno, it just doesn't have that coolness factor for me personally that other Kinect hack videos do. (You can see a lot more impressive stuff just surfing around on YouTube, for instance.)

  • DiamondIce #9 1 year ago

    We must only be a couple of years away from fully working self-aware terminators at this rate...

    Do the users have to take into lag when flying the drone towards walls etc?

  • Machiavellian #10 1 year ago

    The point is that people are doing instead of watching. Nothing happens unless someone actually does something. Today, its some guy with his arms outstreched, another day and the same guy is using suttle movements of his whole body to totally control the drome. He could issue commands with motion. He could use his complete body to make the drone do what he wants. The point is that this is probably not going to be the limit of the interactions that can be done using kinect.

  • grussbarbar #11 1 year ago

    I seem to be misunderstood still, so I'd like to state clearly that I don't want to talk down on the hackers in this demo. It's cool that they're messing around with it, and impressive that they got this to work. And if I were in their shoes, I definitely wanted to share this with the world too.

    However, I do feel it's not as special as I would expect from a video posted to Eurogamer. There are Kinect hacks out there that seem more advanced and just are a bit smarter in general. Just my opinion... ;-)