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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Magic Mirror Kinect hack puts an x-ray spin on augmented reality

via Engadget by Donald Melanson on 1/4/11

That's right -- not even CES can stop the endless wave of Kinect hacks. The latest, and one of the more impressive to date, is the so-called "Magic Mirror" developed by Tobias Blum from the Technical University of Munich, which bridges augmented reality with x-ray vision (of sorts). Of course, the "of sorts" is that it doesn't actually peer through your body to reveal your skeleton (yet), but instead maps a random skeleton from a CT scan onto your frame to create a real-time freakout. As with most Kinect hacks, this one is best seen on video -- check it out after the break.

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Magic Mirror Kinect hack puts an x-ray spin on augmented reality originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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