Time Travellers is a real-time video mirror currently installed at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The Microsoft Kinect is used to take a “depth image” of the viewer and map it to time on a source video. The closer the viewer is to the camera, the later in time is the video.

Created in openFrameworks. Source code available here.

It’s my final project for Kyle Mcdonald and Zach Lieberman’s class 3D Sensing and Visualization at ITP.

I’ve been playing around with the Kinect 3D camera for my class 3D Sensing and Visualization.

In this piece, the depth image is mapped to time in a time-lapse video of NYC. The closer you are to the camera, the later in time is the video.

Original video by Erik Paulsen.