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VIDEO: Rik gets digitized at Eyebeam!

Posted on June 14, 2008 by

As I previously mentioned, my buddy Friedrich Kirschner invited me help test his new bootleg 3D body scanner at a mixer event at Eyebeam labs tonight.  I joined a dozen or so other folks who gamely volunteered to shed most all of their clothes to participate.  The technology Friedrich employs to create 3D body scans is so simple:

  • a small pool of inky water
  • a digital video cam
  • some freeware

But the result is a 3D representation of your body that Friedrich tells me will be made available to all the participants as XML data and perhaps in some other human-readable format.  From there, the data can be brought into a 3D modeling program like Maya, used to create a more true-to-life avatar in Second Life and even printed out with a 3D printer!  So cool!

I of course immediately thought of the seminal 1980s Disney flick "Tron" where the character Flynn gets digitized and brought into the "game grid." Hence the audio track on the video. Enjoy!

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