On what makes a successful data scientist
Recently attended a talk by Jeremy Howard, chief scientist at the popular data mining competition website Kaggle, who observed four common characteristics among the most successful competitors: Deep...
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Kinect Mirror
If you've ever tried using a webcam as a mirror, you'll know that it's a decent approximation, but not quite a perfect replica. For one, it's impossible to hold your own gaze, as in a real mirror --...
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Real Life Portals Using a Projector and a Kinect
What would it look like if we could have portals, from the game "Portal", in real life? One might say that it would look just like the game: look through the blue portal, and see things as if you were...
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Calibrating for one-to-one correspondence in head-tracked VR displays
The effect of head tracked VR displays is quite striking, the first time one sees it. Johnny Lee's wii-mote video on head tracked VR displays is a prime example, in which he demonstrated both the...
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Yosemite
I was in Yosemite valley over Memorial weekend, and though I have visited several times in the past I was again struck by the natural beauty of the park, its breathtaking views, and the towering...
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Anamorphic Projections
One of the interesting aspects of kinect head-tracking is that once you know the physical 3D position of the viewer relative to the display medium, you can alter what's displayed with that location in...
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Anamorphic projections with two kinects and head tracking
Perspective is a funny thing. Far away objects appear small, parallel lines appear to converge in the vanishing point of the horizon, and perfect squares appear as elongated parallelograms or smooshed...
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