For my ESE 350 "Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems" (University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2011) final project, I worked with my friend Eric Chen on modifying Beats so it would take input from an XBOX Kinect. The result is a Kinect hooked up to a Beagleboard-xM running Android and playing Beats. It was all proof-of-concept of course as everything ran with extreme lag, but it was pretty cool nevertheless and fun!
Proof-of-concept gameplay demo of Beats 1.5.5b with Microsoft XBOX Kinect support. The song used in this demo is "Chaoz Impact" by ParagonX9, stepfile by Lisek with permission for distribution with Beats. The person learning to "dance with his hands" in the demo is my lab partner, Eric Chen while I (Philip Peng) am recording the video.
– Blog
– Demo presentation
– Demo video
– Code (Mirror)
– Binaries (Mirror)
– Final report
– GitHub Project
For installation instructions, download all the files in the "install/" folder and skip down to "5. b)" in the report.
Demo Presentation
Photos
DanceWithYourHands: http://dancewithyourhands.blogspot.com
BeatsPortable: http://beatsportable.com/2011/05/beats-kinect-win/
BeatsPortable Forums: http://beatsportable.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1023
UPDATE: Full report and install instructions released! See http://beatsportable.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1023&p=1346#p1346 for more details!
"Beats, Advanced Rhythm Game" is a music rhythm game for Google Android phones/devices. Dance with arrows to the beat of music StepMania/DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) style or tap circles Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents style!
This is a proof-of-concept gameplay demo of Beats 1.5.5b with Microsoft XBOX Kinect support. The song used in this demo is "Chaoz Impact" by ParagonX9, stepfile by Lisek with permission for distribution with Beats. The person learning to "dance with his hands" in the demo is my lab partner, Eric Chen while I (Philip Peng) am recording the video. This was our final project for ESE350 (Microcontrollers & Embedded Systems) at University of Pennsylvania http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ese350/
The Kinect is connected to a Beagleboard-xM running Android (Froyo 2.2 via the Rowboat project), which is running a modified version of Beats that includes Kinect support via OpenFramework. For details, see the forum post at http://beatsportable.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1023&p=1346#p1346 (includes a link to our blog and a full report with detailed steps on setting things up as well as the modified source code and apk for download).
For the latest official release (aka the normal phone version), download this app via the Android Market (search for "beats", "rhythm", or "stepmania") or visit http://beatsportable.com/downloads/
For more information, see http://beatsportable.com and leave your feedback on the forums at http://beatsportable.com/forum/
Enjoy!
~Keripo
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