saiko saru

I've become really impressed with a lot of the hacks that are out there for the Kinect. People are coming up with a lot of ingenious ways to use the Kinect outside of the 360's environment.

Over the weekend I came across an application called MikuMikuDance which is basically a 3D model animation simulator for Japan's ever so popular digital pop star, Hatsune Miku. Along the lines of progression in technology, Miku has also had a live hologram concert:



Back to MikuMikuDance I noticed a setting that said 'Kinect'. I don't have a Kinect but looking it up on youtube yielded some interesting videos.


in the top right you can see the silhouette of the person as they're detected by the Kinect. This makes choreographing dances in MikuMikuDance *much* easier by about 500 times.

So, being that all of us Japanese are crazy here's another video of MMD and a popular individual in Japan;