Kinect augmented reality x-ray (video)
Tuesday, 04 January 2011

This is a truly spooky use of the Kinect and augmented reality. You can actually see inside a person's body just as if you were wearing x-ray specs.

 

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While it is true that you could fill a news stream with nothing but stories of what people are using the Kinect for - this particular use deserves a special mention.

You may have seen ads for see-through x-ray specs that let you get a view of what lies beneath clothing without having to install an airport scanner - well now you can use a Kinect for the same job, sort of.

The idea is very simple and it seems to be a specific expression of a very general trend to use the Kinect to implement augmented reality. The Kinect can be used to track the position of a user and then the software can overlay some graphics to provided the augmented reality. In this case the graphics are taken from a CT body scan. The result is that you have a "magic" window into the body so that you can see what lies inside.

 

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Of course this doesn't mean that you can see the inside of the body of the user in front of the input device - the body parts are images from another body altogether, i.e. the one that the CT scan was taken from - and so this is in no way an x-ray device.

What is, however, is very spooky and a great aid to educating people about what is under their skin. It might even evolve into a medical visualisation aid allowing doctors to view a CT scan in context. Who knows if this would be useful?

 

         

 

The project is being created by a team at TU München and it is in a very early stage of development.

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