Mixed Reality + Motion Technology

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Vangos Pterneas - Kinect MVP

Hey! I’m Vangos Pterneas, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. Most of you know me of my Kinect/HoloLens articles, talks, books, videos, and open-source software.

I’m running LightBuzz Inc, a US-based software agency. During the past eight years, I have been helping innovative businesses, as well as Fortune-500 companies, grow using cutting-edge body-tracking technology. I also love teaching and talking about Augmented Reality and Motion Analysis.

If you’d like to work together and bring your business to the next level, just drop me a line.

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Body Tracking - Orbbec Astra Nuitrack
CodeProjectKinectMotion AnalysisOrbbec
April 30, 2018

Body Tracking using Orbbec Astra + Nuitrack (Kinect alternative)

After Microsoft announced the (not so sudden) death of Kinect, I have committed myself to providing viable alternatives for my customers and their businesses. My company has been developing motion-analysis applications for the past seven years, so I know first-hand…
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Kinect Toolkit SDK
KinectUncategorized
April 12, 2018

Kinect Legacy SDK 1.8 & 2.0

As you know, Kinect has come to an end and the industry is transitioning to new depth sensors and new body-tracking SDKs. I have committed myself and my company to develop new frameworks for the Orbbec and Intel cameras. So,…
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Kinect is dead
BusinessCodeProjectKinect
October 25, 2017

Kinect is dead! Now what?

BREAKING NEWS! Microsoft has officially killed the Kinect. Today, Alex Kipman (creator of the Kinect) and Matthew Lapsen (XBOX Marketing) announced that Microsoft will stop manufacturing the Kinect sensor. Source: Co.Design Kinect devices will be available in stores until they run out…
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Floor detection using Kinect and C#
C#CodeProjectKinect
September 10, 2017

Floor Detection using Kinect

Kinect is primarily used in Body and Face tracking applications. Few people know, though, that Kinect is an amazing sensor for detecting the floor, too! The native Kinect SDK provides us with all the information we need to accurately recognize…
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Mathematics - funny guy with calculator
C#CodeProjectKinect
May 28, 2017

Kinect Joint Rotation – The Definitive Guide

In one of my previous blog posts, I showed you how to measure joint angles using Kinect and C#. Today, we'll dive into a more complex topic: in this article, you are going to learn how to measure the orientation…
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Jump Detection Kinect Vitruvius (Cover)
KinectUnityVideos
February 28, 2017

Jump Detection using Kinect & Vitruvius

Today, I'm going to show you how to detect a jump using Kinect and Vitruvius. Jumping is one of the most challenging actions to detect. In this tutorial, you'll also learn how to measure the vertical distance between the person…
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Kinect Drivers - Cover
Kinect
February 2, 2017

Troubleshooting Kinect Driver Issues

Kinect Drivers were originally released in 2014. Since then, there had been no major updates. Microsoft updated the drivers in November 2016, adding UWP support. A few days ago, while working with one of our customers, I noticed something really weird:…
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Natural User Interfaces and Mixed Reality
HololensKinectLeap MotionRealsenseStructure
December 9, 2016

Presentation: Natural User Interfaces + Mixed Reality

A few days ago, I performed a University presentation about Natural User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality. Here are the slides of my presentation. Feel free to get inspiration or use it for your own speaking engagements. 'Til the…
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CodeProjectHololens
October 30, 2016

A Pokemon-Go Clone for HoloLens

I'm VERY excited about this article for two reasons: It features one of the most cool demos I have ever demonstrated in this blog, and it's the first guest post, authored by a person I really admire and respect. This article is…
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