UCLA REMAP and Open Perception are porting OpenPTrack to operate on the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 and TX1. Both UCLA and the University of Padova are performing integration and performance testing on these platforms. Compact and with a low per-unit cost, the platform will make an OpenPTrack system more affordable and […]
On Saturday, October 31, OpenPTrack was showcased as part of UCLA Parents’ Weekend. Selected as this year’s annual Faculty Presentation in UCLA’s Royce Hall, “REMAP: At the Intersection of Art and Technology” introduced the ongoing research of UCLA REMAP and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television to visiting family members, including the development and […]
OpenPTrack was included in Motion Bank‘s Choreographic Coding Lab (CCL) #5, which took place at the UCLA Department of Art‘s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center September 15-19, 2015. Attended by choreographers, dancers, media artists and researchers exploring the intersection of interpretive technology and body-based expression, CCL included OpenPTrack as a platform for experimentation. The […]
On September 15th, 2015, UCLA REMAP‘s Project Manager, Randy Illum, presented the OpenPTrack platform to the Foro Internacional de Innovación Educativa conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also presenting were PhD student Christine Lee (UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies) and Gabriela Cardenas, a teacher from UCLA Lab School. Lee and Cardenas […]
UCLA REMAP has launched a campaign via UCLA’s crowdfunding platform, UCLA Spark, to raise support for three new OpenPTrack deployments and deepen the open source process. By collaborating with artists and educators not initially involved in OpenPTrack’s development, the research team will be able to expand upon efforts to make the […]
Five UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA TFT) undergraduates showcased interactive installations using OpenPTrack as the interface for body-based audience interactions. Under the supervision of UCLA REMAP‘s Fabian Wagmister and Jeff Burke, the students developed and built these pieces as their Interactive Digital Media concentration thesis projects, and to be prototypes for the […]
UCLA REMAP has set up a temporary installation of OpenPTrack at Derivative‘s Los Angeles Space. The team will be showcasing OpenPTrack and its easy integration with Derivative’s TouchDesigner at TouchDesigner Workshop Los Angeles on April 30 and May 3. The deployment consists of (1) Kinect v2, (2) Kinect v1, and (3) CPUs. (Click […]
UCLA REMAP is testing OpenPTrack in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media‘s Television Studio #3, using (3) Kinect v2 and (3) Shuttle i7 computers. This is the first installation of OpenPTrack at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT). Students in TFT’s Interpretive Digital Media (IDM) concentration […]
Dr. Joshua Danish and the Learning Sciences program at Indiana University are now using OpenPTrack to develop Cyberlearning tools with elementary school students at a Bloomington area school. The Indiana installation is supporting a thread of the NSF-funded Science Through Technology Enhanced Play (STEP) project, led by Dr. Noel Enyedy of […]
Support for the Microsoft Kinect2, which will provide enhanced range and accuracy, is now in testing at UCLA! The detection code leverages GPU processing to handle the higher resolution RGBD images. Steht ein häuschen in der mitte, rund und rührend ghostwriter hausarbeit Ich fand es gut zum verlieben
