Digital Puppetry, Mapping, State of Art January 8th, 2014
NI Mate – The realtime motion capture tool

Delicode release NI Mate 1.9 version, a great tool for digital puppetry.

It captures Microsoft Kinect sends the information via OSC or MIDI to animation, sound and game applications.

 

State of Art January 8th, 2014
Kinected Stories: The Interactive Storybook Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JNOD7B_3Zn0

A very interesting idea to extend books making storytelling a real/virtual experience.
Made by Delicode, a Finland company that made NI mate, a powerful midware to be use in digital puppetry.

Interaction, State of Art January 7th, 2014
An operating method for a bipedal walking robot for entertainment

Interaction, Interfaces, State of Art, WIImote January 7th, 2014
Accelerometer-based user interfaces for the control of a physically simulated character

Interaction, State of Art January 7th, 2014
A Puppet Interface for Retrieval of Motion Capture Data

Digital Puppetry, Interfaces, Mapping, Multitouch, Rigging, State of Art January 7th, 2014
Multitouch Arm Puppetry

Animation, State of Art January 7th, 2014
Generalized Biped Walking Control

Animation, State of Art January 7th, 2014
Motion Fields for Interactive Character Animation

Animation, State of Art January 7th, 2014
Optimization-based Interactive Motion Synthesis