Just thought I’d stash a reference to this paper on low cost motion capture. It uses two webcams to track the lower half of someone’s body. Just keeping this for inspiration in a related project.

Unfortunately, it won’t be available until the middle of the year, but Apple today announced the iPhone, which isn’t just a phone, but in fact a combination phone, iPod, and internet communication device. It really does seem amazing: the type of handheld convergence device that i was hoping for. It’s got:

• It’s a wide screen video iPod.
• It’s got Bluetooth, Wifi, and EDGE (no 3g network?)
• It uses touch screen technology to provide reconfigurable interfaces in a small space.
• It’s got a 2 megapixel camera built in.
• It apparently runs an embedded version of OS X, and has support for Widgets, Safari, and all sorts of other good stuff.

The only thing I’m not really sure of is the streaming capabilities: if it just has EDGE network, it’s a little light on bandwidth for real video transfer. Still, it looks like an amazing
gadget. I may have to upgrade when these are available.

Here’s Engadget’s Coverage of the Keynote:
Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote – Engadget

Digg also has a lot of people commenting.

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