Thursday, May 26, 2022

Daniel Myers- Bremen Museum

Something from the museum we visited in Bremen that really interested me was the Steuern Mit Infrarotlicht. This exhibit showcased an app called “Midnight” which tracks hand and finger movements. It functions by using three LEDs to illuminate your hands with infrared light, and the reflecting light is then recorded by two cameras which capture precise and  detailed 3D images of the hands. Hand movements are calculated from the 120 images that are taken per second. This exhibit helps give me an idea of how certain motion capturing technologies specifically function. By understanding how this works, this gives me a much better idea of how motion capturing technologies function in specific applications such as computing body movements in VR simulations and games, motion capturing for cutscenes in video games, and potential future applications in interacting with augmented reality. Check me doing cool stuff in the simulation below!


1 Comments:

At May 26, 2022 at 4:34 AM , Blogger Mallory Beyers said...

This is really cool Dan! I don’t think I was able to see this particular exhibit in the museum so I am glad that I was able to read about it. I also think it’s interesting how technology can be coded to take photos and replicate figures.

 

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