Intel Ultimate Coder Challenge Round 2 Fight!
The bell has rung and Code-Monkeys is ready to let loose its collective intellect to throw down the competition. We just narrowly missed the crown last round, grabbing second place with Wind Up...
View ArticleEmbracing The "I" in "UI" :: Ultimate Coder Challenge Week 2
It's been said that the iPhone single-handedly created what some are calling the UI Revolution. Five years ago, UX wasn't even a word and "User Interface" was on the Strangelove fringe of design...
View ArticleUltimate Coder 2 Week 3: A first look at the Perceptual Input Manager
This week we are getting our hands deep into the sdk and the how we will use it to control Stargate Gunship. We here at Code-Monkeys are taking the crawl, walk, run approach to the creation of the...
View ArticleUltimate Coder 2 week 4 : The UZ Factor
There’s this story in the Bible where the outcome of a battle is being determined by whether or not Moses can keep his arms up in the air. On its face it always struck me as a strange story with what...
View ArticleUltimate Coder 2 Week 5: Gavin Re-imagines Stargate Gunship GUI For Perceptual
This week our update was written by Gavin Nichols. You can interact with him on twitter at @radiagoAt Soma Games, we tackle everything as a team. Throughout this challenge, our primary focus has been...
View ArticleUltimate Coder 2, Week 6 :: Glossal Input Schema
We’re fresh back from GDC and wow…what a great conference! We had so much fun meeting the other contestants, making fun of Lee, and showing off Stargate Gunship to hordes of Stargate fans. Any day you...
View ArticleUltimate Coder 2, Week 7 :: Wrapping Up and Sucking Up to Nicole
Decisions, decisions...As the final post we really need to drill down on several things, explain how they effect the final product and that's likely to make an atypically long, and potentially boring...
View ArticleIntel® RealSense™ and Gaming
This post originally appeared on the Soma Games blog and is printed here with permission.If you were watching at CES you may have seen Intel unveil their RealSense initiative. This is really an...
View ArticlePeripheral-Free ASCII Input Using Intel® RealSense™ Technology
by Chris SkaggsDownload PDF[PDF 579KB]If the goal of virtual input devices like those that can be created with Intel® RealSense™ technology merged with an appropriate Natural User Interface (NUI), is...
View ArticleThe Path from Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK to Intel® RealSense™ SDK in Unity
Code-Monkeys engaged with Intel’s 3D sensing initiative back in 2012 when we first saw the (rather raw) technology at the Intel® Developer Forum that year. Back then, it was called “Intel Perceptual...
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