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Kinetic Bunny, meet the Virtual Bunny: Using a Kinect and the Oculus Rift together in the Blender Game Engine

<p>Following on the 2012 presentation of using Delicode NI mate with the Blender Game Engine, this talk covers the March 2013 release of the upgraded &quot;NI mate tools&quot; plugin for Blender (adding the ability to receive joint orientation as well as live feed textures), as well as it&#39;s inbuilt support for receiving head rotation data from the Oculus Rift VR headset through NI mate. As well as a giving a talk, the presenters will demonstrate the new functionalities on stage.</p>

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  • <p>James Kennedy was a founding member of the Centre for Unified Computing in University College, Cork, where he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2004. During the course of his research he worked on distributed systems of various kinds, focusing on automating business processes on grid and distributed computing systems. He founded Rendicity in 2010 to address a gap in the 3D animation mark…

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