SIGGRAPH spotlights the 3D DDR experience...Dance Dance Revolution is 'hot' and in our first of series of posts on Siggraph 06 -- Hollywood2020.blogs.com blogger Joyce Schwarz, JCOM, emerging entertainment consultant/author selected the 3D DDR as one of the top demos in the emerging technologies arena now on display in Boston.(link below). Here's a repeat of that post:
http://hollywood2020.blogs.com/hollywood2020/2006/07/siggraph_virtua.html
SLASHDOT.ORG INCLUDES VIDEO OF THE DDD demo:
Slash Dot's post on DDD includes a link to video -- which is pretty awesome. "NewScientistTech has a story about a full body version of Dance Dance Revolution. It uses vision recognition to award points after assessing a player's ability to correctly mimic silhouetted dance shapes.
Check out the video clip of it being demoed at SIGGRAPH 2006."
The title of the story on "New Scientist" is: Computerised judge keeps dancers on their toes. The article explains that the video demo (linked here again)This video demonstration (Windows Media format, 6.48MB), shows creator Ming Yang-Yu of the Communications & Multimedia Lab at National Taiwan University, demonstrating it at the SIGGRAPH 2006 conference in Boston, US. The NEW SCIENTIST story also reports, " So far the team has choreographed dance moves to 11 tracks." That article doen't mention our fave app as an exercise incentive but it does offer this alternate use: to automatically translate sign language, for example.
ANALYZING DANCE MOVES: in a related story on NEW SCIENTIST -- they focus on how New software can break dance down . That story reports: Researchers at Arizona State University in the US developed the system, which can recognise dance moves from normal video footage Read that article to see what other experts feel about this so-called "silhouette-recognition".
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