by Greg Borenstein and Devin Chalmers
Thanks to mad consumer science like the Microsoft Kinect, the future of human-computer interfaces is approaching faster than a jetpack-powered high-speed rail line filled with Phil Dick novels.
Watch, dumbfounded and thunderstruck, as award-winning Kinect hacker Greg Borenstein (and his grotesquely deformed, half-literate assistant Devin) use open source libraries like libfreenect, Cinder, and OpenFrameworks to build gestural interfaces that let them:
Working without a net and at great personal and professional peril, they will show why even the crustiest open-source geeks will be excited to play with this new toy.
United States United States, Portland
21st–24th June 2011