this semester’s goal of my course “experimentelle interfaces” was to redesign everyday objects as data interfaces in order to create an “augmented reality of things”. the results of my student’s projects are now online:
http://gestaltung.fh-wuerzburg.de/blogs/exint_ws06/?cat=20
the latest version of GoogleEarth now has an applescript interface. so it’s possible to control the camera from outside. with apple’s cocoa libs it is even possible to call the applescript from within Processing.
my latest project “movableDisplay” uses face tracking for navigation. harald told me that opencv has a nice face detection example. so i created a small tool for OS X that uses the built-in isight of my macbook and tracks the position of the user’s head. the coordinates and the radius are sent to other applications via OSC (oscpack library). the tool should be portable to any other platform.
usage:
- install OpenCV.framework
- open your terminal and browse to the folder
- write “./FaceDetectionOSC –cascade=haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml”
the packets /x, /y and /radius are broadcasted to localhost/127.0.0.1 via OSC.
Download FaceDetectionOSC.zip (OS X Universal)
Download Processing Example