Ross Gerbasi is a Senior Design Engineer at 15 Letters in Chicago. His current work has been in physical interactives with multiple installations that are currently in use at the Chicago Field Museum and The Chicago Botanic Gardens. When not working on projects for 15 Letters, Ross concentrates his efforts on film making. Working in Motion graphics and Post Visual effects with a specialty in motion control and interactive production FX. Ross was a founding member of AS3NUI, an organization created to bring together members of the community that have an interest in NUI development. Currently the organization is concentrating on the Micosoft Kinect. 

 

This meetup will examine using the Kinect natively with Actionscript and the Flex SDK through Adobe AIR. We will look at the native extension itself and talk over the potential of the Kinect from a application developers perspective. Demos will include Skeleton Management, regions, gestures, UI, and much more. Also there will be a sneak peak at the inner workings of the upcoming AIRKinect Extended library which will provide a solid framework for building Kinect applications in Pure AS3. Whether you're a designer, artist, developer or just technology hobbyiest this is a meet-up you will not want to miss!

 

For more information check out the AS3NUI website here, as3nui.com. You can also check out video demos and tutorials here http://vimeo.com/album/1747215