[Opensim-dev] Question about the suitable interface

[Nebadon Izumi]

here are some more links

http://ict.usc.edu/projects/gesture_emotion_transference_using_microsoft_kinect_and_second_life_avatars/

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/01/second-life-on-kinect.html

http://www.avameo.de/index.php/2011/04/11/kinect-motion-caturing-fur-opensim-animationen/

http://www.nsl.tuis.ac.jp/xoops/modules/xpwiki/?SLKinect2

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, animation control isn't directly exposed in OpenSimulator.
>  Three possibilities spring to mind.
>
> 1)  Have an in-world script using osAvatarPlayAnimation() to trigger
> animations.  This would need to establish an LSL http listener for incoming
> commands, which some external code would need to issue.
>
> 2)  Write a C# OpenSimulator region module to directly call
> ScenePresence.Animation.**AddAnimation().  Essentially, this means
> copying the code from OSSL_Api.AvatarPlayAnimation()**.  The region
> module would still need some way of receiving commands, such as an
> listening for a particular HTTP POST as with osAvatarPlayAnimation() above.
>
> 3)  Adapt the client to send the required play animation commands directly
> (as Bo suggested).  This does have the advantage of compatibility with SL
> and doesn't require a messy out-of-band component.  But the complexity
> depends on exactly what you're trying to do (playing precanned animations
> might be relatively easy, actually transmitting real-time kinect less so).
>
> There's been some work done on this kind of thing already, such as [1].  I
> look forward to Kinect 2 picking up my facial expressions and transmitting
> them onto my avatar (which sounds great and for some reason really creepy
> too).
>
> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=tl2gLw-GJws<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl2gLw-GJws>
>
>
> On 21/02/12 18:47, Georg Janke wrote:
>
>> Hello Bo,
>> thanks for the commentary. That may be a very worthwhile suggestion.
>> Exactly
>> that is what I am trying to figure out, which interface is the most
>> suitable.
>> Would others agree that when controlling just one avatar it is best
>> practice
>> to do that with the help of the viewer?
>>
>> Georg
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.**berlios.de<opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de>
>> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces@**lists.berlios.de<opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de>]
>> Im Auftrag von Bo
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 19:18
>> An: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>> Betreff: Re: [Opensim-dev] Question about the suitable interface
>>
>> Hello,
>> forgive me a noob question, please. You are going to control nothing but
>> one
>>
>> avatar, right? What will be the role of simulator in it?
>>
>> If the Kinect movements would affect all avatars on the sim (eg. an kinect
>> controlled earthquake) i would understand the role of the sim. But while
>> it
>> affects just one avatar i would rather do all changes on viewer side using
>> standard ways so the thing would be compatible with SL..
>>
>> Bo
>>
>> PS: of course it could possible to do it as a sim module. But question is
>> why..
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 21 of February 2012 18:54:08 Georg Janke wrote:
>>
>>> Hello developers of OpenSim!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My Name is Georg and would be very happy if you could answer my question.
>>>
>>> Short description of what my aim is:
>>>
>>> I am working on a application that is able to recognize gestures from a
>>> Kinect controller. With the help of this I want to control an avatar in
>>> OpenSim. So I have the recognition application and OpenSim running
>>>
>> parallel
>>
>>> on the client pc. The database on the OpenSim server contains the
>>> appropriate animations for the gestures.
>>>
>>> Question:
>>>
>>> Does OpenSim has a suitable interface that my application can use to tell
>>> OpenSim it has recognized a certain gesture and thus controlling the
>>>
>> avatar
>>
>>> to perform the appropriate animation from the database?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Georg
>>>
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