Carlo Alducente's Blog » Marker Tracking http://labs.alducente.com Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:04:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Interacting with the webcam http://labs.alducente.com/2009/08/25/70/ http://labs.alducente.com/2009/08/25/70/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:50:34 +0000 alducente http://labs.alducente.com/?p=70 Last month, we decided to do some show-and-tell sessions at Zinc Roe where everyone had a chance to show some really cool stuff. My contribution was a little presentation on different ways to use the webcam to interact with flash applications. I had a blast reading up on some interesting webcam detection tutorials and articles, as well as putting some examples together myself.

Here are the topics I covered:

  • Camera.activityLevel – A brief explanation on using the Camera object’s activityLevel property
  • Bitmap.getPixel() – Using the BitmapData class to check for motion
  • Augmented Reality & Marker Tracking – What it is and how it can be used in different applications.
  • Moving MovieClips with your hand (or other limbs) using the webcam – An example of how you can use the motion detection stuff to move a MovieClip around the screen using only your hands and a webcam.

So check out my post over at the Metal Fish Eggs blog and let me know what you think!

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