Active SportGames (IN 2265)

Lab Course / Praktikum: Active SportGames

by Prof. Gudrun Klinker, Ph.D.
Tutors: Tayfur Coskun and Frieder Pankratz

• Modul IN 2265
• Type: Practical Course
  
• SWS: 4 + 8
  
• ECTS: 6 Credits

Weekly Meetings: Tuesday, 16:00-18:00, MI 00.13.010

The course will be conducted in German. Materials are in English

About this course

You will learn how to use the Kinect with the Microsoft Kinect SDK with Visual Studio and Unity 3D. You will also learn basics of character modeling and animation with blender and howto make that work with the Kinect in Unity. Additionally, you will learn how to track different sport exercises with the Kinect using sequence based 3D gesture detection and the capabilities of the Unity game engine itself.

Requirements to pass the practical course

• Attend to each lesson, except those which are either not mandotary or those in which no official meeting takes place.
• Plan and develop a project in teams of 2 or 3 persons.
• Present your planed project in a team with slides
• Demonstrate your finished project
• Show the responsibilities of each member of the team (Each person is graded individually)

News

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Preliminary Schedule

Date	Conducted by	Topic	Mandatory attendence
15.10.2013	Tayfur Coskun	Introduction to the course. Define teams of 2 to 3 persons. Kinect with Microsoft Kinect SDK and Visual Studio.	yes
22.10.2013	Tayfur Coskun	Motion Capturing with the Microsoft Kinect SDK using Unity 3D. Think about your team-project (Home-Work).	yes
29.10.2013	Tayfur Coskun	Create a very simple character and its skeleton with blender. Associate both with each other and export/import it to Unity in a way it works with the Kinect.	yes
05.11.2013	Tayfur Coskun	Make the Kinect work with an High-Quality character from Unity's asset store & Sequence based 3D gesture detection and Realisation of different sport exercises with the Kinect in Unity.	yes
12.11.2013	Tayfur Coskun	Catch up lesson. If you had difficulties to follow previous exercises, you should come to this lesson to ask questions.	yes
19.11.2013	- no official meeting -	Prepare a presentation of your project in which you present your idea.	no
26.11.2013	Tayfur Coskun	Present your project and your team.	yes
03.12.2013	- no official meeting -	Work on your project	no
10.12.2013	- no official meeting -	Work on your project	no
17.12.2013	- no official meeting -	Work on your project.	no
24.12.2013	Christmas	Happy Christmas!	no
31.12.2013	New Year	Happy new year!	no
07.01.2014	Tayfur Coskun	Discuss problems and ideas of your project with each other and your supervisor.	no
14.01.2014	Tayfur Coskun		no
21.01.2014	Tayfur Coskun	Visit of a company in industry related to sports (eGym) and work on your project Visit of Sports faculty for interdisciplinary connections - not sure yet and work on your project	no
28.01.2013	Tayfur Coskun	Present your final project (Grading Day)	yes
04.02.2013	- no official meeting -	Demo Day Presentation	no

Materials can be found in Moodle

Go to moodle

Screenshots of finished projects

• Arcade.png:
  

• EdgeWays^?.png:
  

• mineons.png:
  

• MovingWall^?.png:
  

• Runner.png:
  

• LightningSpectreCombat^?.png: