Augmented Reality Tetris Using Kinect and a Wiimote [Video]

Augmented Reality head tracking Keyosaurus Kinect Wii Wiimote

by James Plafke | 10:28 am, April 22nd, 2011

Trinity College student Keyosaurus (which is his YouTube moniker) mashed up Kinect body controls, a Wiimote and a bit of head tracking to control an augmented reality version of portal-less puzzling classic Tetris. The Kinect motions control most of the game, from zooming the camera to moving the tetraminoes, while the Wiimote rotates the pieces. For some reason, the video showing the hack in action doesn’t play any of the instantly-recognizable Tetris themes, but blasts our ears with elevator music instead.

(PC World via Engadget)

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Rollin Bishop Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
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Max I really sandals.
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Max Despite having an invitation from Cuba, I will be unable to attend "Battleship" in LA tonight.
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Eric Limer Cure for boredom: Start enough pet projects that you're procrastinating literally all the time. Suddenly, everything is fascinating!
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Max (exasperated horse noise)
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Eric Limer bacon cheddar croutons
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Eric Limer [picture of a fishbowl filled with keys from various styles of keyboards] Title: Key Party.
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Eric Limer Arby's: It's Good Feud Food for Shrewd Dudes with Crude 'Tudes.
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Eric Limer Arby's: It's Good, Lewd Food.
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Max I'm ready to meet the celestial moth. I'm ready to hang out.
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James Plafke More like Kid Dickarus amirite?
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Eric Limer I'm still in love with the Jet Set Radio soundtrack, and a lot of that strikes me as sort of proto-dubstep.
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James Plafke Guy working out in sunglasses is super cool.
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James Plafke I find that when I put something on a reminders list, I won't remember about it. But if I don't put it on a list, I'll remember forever.
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Eric Limer "What do I do? Oh, I'm a herpderpetologist."
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Max Struck me how weird it is that I thought "better adjust my alarm clock" and reached for my phone.
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Eric Limer I always forget you can upload pictures through Twitter and use Imgur instead; I'm a Redditor at heart, I guess.
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