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Miku Dances with Real-Time Motion Capture via Kinect

posted on by Egan Loo
Full-body dancing demonstrated with MikuMikuDance; software now available

Crypton Future Media originally created the virtual idol Hatsune Miku to launch its line of Vocaloid vocal song synthesis software.

Last Monday, Higuchi posted a video test of his MikuMikuDance program accepting real-time motion capture data from Kinect, but that earlier test only worked on the upper body. In Sunday's new video, Higuchi demonstrated full-body motion capture to control Miku's dancing. In addition, Higuchi now offers the driver for the Kinect in his free MikuMikuDance program. MikuMikuDance not only creates dancing videos of Miku, but also of other characters with 3D modeling data.

Twitter that the MikuMikuDance software now s its 3D Vision setup for stereoscopic 3D video. Higuchi himself posted a demonstration video of MikuMikuDance in stereoscopic 3D, although this video uses red/blue anaglyph glasses instead of the full-color liquid-crystal shutter glasses that Nvidia's 3D Vision uses.

[Via Hachima Kikō, Temple Knights]

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