Real time lightsaber on the Kinect on PC

[quote]Proof of concept of tracking and rendering a lightsaber in real time using a Kinect hooked up to a PC. Imagine the possibilities.

Best viewed in fullscreen 480p. I track a wooden stick and I overlay the light glow on the computer. Drivers using OpenKinect, image processing, tracking, and rendering using OpenCV. Audio recorded and processed using Audacity and played using libao.[/quote]

[quote][url=http://www.youtube.com/user/yankeyan]Yankeyan[/url] used the [url=https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/]OpenKinect drivers[/url], along with image processing, tracking and rendering by [url=http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/]OpenCV[/url] to create this great real-time lightsaber effect on his PC. All he has to do is pick up a wooden stick, and the Kinect tracks its position and the image processing software adds the lightsaber effect.[/quote]