How to Connect Kinect Motion Capture to Your SL Avatar

Jessica Pixel has all the details you need for streaming Kinect-based motion capture to your Second Life avatar here, the cool hack we saw on her live YouTube stream earlier today.

"The software [called Rinions] is developed by Fumi Hax (Fumikazu Iseki IRL) at the Network System Laboratory group at the Toyko University of Information Science," she says. "Their website is here. There is actually a more recent version of Firestorm (4.6.9) compiled with the Rinions code available now and it's pretty easy to setup and run. I've even been able to get the animation server working, so if another person had the proper software installed, they could see my movement in their viewer in real time (versus over the stream)."

Got questions about the setup for Jessica? Ask her in Comments!

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[Graham Mills]

Thanks to Jessica and Fumi for showing how this can be done and glad to see it most likely works in OpenSim too.

Question: Does it work with Windows 10 yet?

[Cake]

I participated in this one! That's me with the curly short hair. Next to me is my friend Loriella!

I suggested to Jessica that we do a silly workout theme next time. I'll go load up on Wriggleworths items from Uber so I can be ready!

[Jessica Pixel]

@Graham Mills - I'm not sure if it works with Win10. I'm using Win7 and it works fine. I tested the animation server functions between my computer and a Win8 computer and it was fine, so I don't anticipate there being any issues with Win10.

@Cake - I've already been looking for fun 80s workout videos that would work well (no floor exercises since the camera is really bad at figuring out what you're doing if you're not standing upright). I need to find a more interesting location for the next stream too!