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Tracker Camera Interface
The Microsoft Kinect is used as a tracking device to facilitate automatic camera tracking in video conferencing and telepresence communications. The device recognizes and tracks up to five users at a telepresence node and allows them to control the panning of a Canon VC-C4 PTZ camera. A particular user can take control of the camera by way of body gesture (e.g. lifting your arms). The camera will focus on that user until another user prompts the system.
Collaborative Gesture Based Interface
This demonstration shows the use of multiple Kinect devices facilitating a multi-node collaborative space. Participants can use gestures to control all aspect of a distributed networked-based Google Earth session. Each node has a Kinect camera that tracks participants and transmits synchronous manipulation gestures to all other nodes. A central C&C server ingests and sends out commands accordingly. This synchronized control allows users at each node to take turns in "driving" Google Earth instances running at multiple locations.
Vibrochord
The Vibrochord is a new keyboard-like device, that when coupled with the vibrotactile display The Emoti-Chair, enables a new art form, vibrotactile music. Vibrotactile music is much like audio music, in which patterns of vibrations are presented to a recipient over time, however vibrotactile music presents vibration to the skin as vibrotactile stimulation rather than to the ear as sound.
Interactive Content Authoring for ATSC Mobile
Ryerson's ATSC M/H Content Group will be showcasing interactive prototype applications built and tested using Open Source software that conform to Mobile DTV's ATSC A/153 Part 5 standard. Visitors will learn about freely available tools that can help to design, build and test their own apps as it relates to the presentation and packaging components of Mobile DTV rich media apps. There will be a presentation at NAB on April 17 providing insights on Ryerson's discoveries on how to apply DIMS, SVG Tiny 1.2, Sophisticated Multimedia Scenes, ECMAScript and SVG's uDOM that are the foundation of OMA-RME and A/153's interactive capabilities.
Global Campus Network
In an increasingly globalized broadcast world, students need to be able to leave their educational institutions with a strong understanding of communities around the world, not just their immediate surroundings. Ryerson University, along with other academic institutions, are partnering to create the first truly collaborative international student perspective of worldwide events and creative endeavors. Students from around the world are working to collaboratively create programming, in full high definition, for the Global Campus Network. Pilot programming is currently in production, as we work to launch an ongoing network of student creation.