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Point Clouds
We’ve all have to arrange and rearrange things on a daily basis. We arrange things in our personal lives—our sock drawers, puzzles, furniture, or a bouquet of flowers—and in our professional...
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Playtime with the Microsoft Surface
The studio was delighted to receive the new Microsoft Surface 2 yesterday—now, it’s time to experiment. All hands on deck. A few photos from our first date with the technology… Click to view slideshow.
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Meet the LED Cube
The most common response to people seeing this display is, What the heck is that? Well, back in our media lab, we’ve been experimenting with an R&D project involving Kinect technology and an...
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Scenes from the Volumetric Society Meet-up
Earlier this month, the Volumetric Society met at Second Story Interactive Studios for the very first regional meet-up. These are exciting times for anyone interested in depth-sensing and...
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In-Depth Storytelling
Here in the Second Story Lab, we research new and emerging technologies that have the potential to enhance user experiences. As part of this ongoing quest, we are always on the lookout for new ways of...
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Tracking Faces
Second Story Labs has created a unique user experience by combining the new head tracking capabilities recently added to Microsoft Kinect’s arsenal of features, with a transparent EL screen from...
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Launching Satellite
The typical interactive surface does very little to engage our very fine touch senses. Our fingers reach out and find smooth glass, rather than objects. Finding new ways to integrate tangible...
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Sightlines: Augmenting an Object with Face-Tracking and Reactive Content
Recently, we’ve been experimenting with technology capable of tracking faces and changing what the viewer sees on a display, but we wanted to push the experience into uncharted territory. What if you...
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Aurora: a low-tech, tactile musical instrument
“Instead of reacting to opportunities, we’re able to create opportunities.” At Second Story Labs it can be a challenge to share much of our hardware hacking and design, as much of what we do is...
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Lose your Occlusion
Depth-sensing cameras like the Kinect give us the opportunity to mix physical environments and virtual environments, creating new immersive experiences. In this Second Story Labs experiment, we...
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How We Built Lyt: a Technical View of the Making Process
At Second Story, we all share a passion for making and crafting. Our collaborations have taken lots of different forms, from a robot that prints tattoos to a floor-to-ceiling interactive sculpture to...
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Unboxing the Kinect for Windows v2
Kinect for Windows v2 We started experimenting with the Kinect for Windows v2 from Microsoft this week and are already excited by the new possibilities that this impressive new depth-sensing camera...
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Leap Motion Path
Leap Motion Path is a Second Story lab experiment exploring the use cases for the Leap Motion controller in the digital animation field. Our objective was to create a tool to capture 3D motion that...
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