Body Tracking with No Kinect in TouchDesigner 2022

Hey! In this tutorial, we'll go over how to use the real-time body tracking component for TouchDesigner that I've released on my Patreon: / tblankensmith
Link to the No Kinect Website: no-kinect.netlify.app/
[Note] you can tack in a query parameter to your socket server by using ?wsURL=
eg. no-kinect.netlify.app/?wsURL=...
This makes it easy to share a permanent URL to your phone.
You'll need a free login to github.com and heroku.com/.
Link to the WebSocket Server: github.com/torinmb/Socket-Ser...
If you're interested in learning more about WebSockets check out my beginner series here where I go over how to control TouchDesigner using a website and vice versa: • How to Control TouchDe... . Using all the info in this series you should be able to recreate the TD component in this video from scratch.
0:00 Overview and Examples
3:42 Hosing our WebSocket Server
2:34 Sending Slider Data
6:55 Setting up the Website and TD Project
10:42 Customizing the TD Component

[@brandonellis9060]

Hey Torin, great video! This is amazing and exactly what I've been looking for!

[@herfoulmouth]

Looking forward to seeing what I can make with this. Thank you

[@ozanozturk1993]

Amazing topic man thx !

[@steveivanka]

this is awesome, thanks mate.

[@jordyandrews]

thank you so much

[@heezyhelmi]

Nice project man! Is there tutorial for the detection?

[@vanstronauts3448]

Great stuff, thanks, will it be possible to attach an FBX model to the Skeleton coordinates like if a Kinnect component?

[@user-de8og1kj6y]

Hi, thank you for you for this tutorial. I am working on a classroom project. I have a projector and a webcam as my set up which is mounted on the ceiling. I want to track people's feet and project an image/ vector onto it. The projected output should move with people's moving feet. Can you suggest how can i project the image/ vector on the detected object?
Awaiting your response.

[@parsaesmaeilzadeh8358]

Hello, does this work with old kinect?

[@blankensmithing]

You don't need any Kinect for this technique

[@fingerflicker]

6:18 There is no production in 'choosea branch to deploy', only the main. help me

[@blankensmithing]

just choose main then

[@dr0mp507]

what is the latency and what wifi hardware did you used?

[@blankensmithing]

I haven't calculated the latency, but it feels more responsive than speeds that I've gotten out of a Kinect. The model can run at 60fps on a phone. Websockets are generally pretty low latency. I didn't use any custom wifi hardware, just a normal wifi connection

[@wowbrothers6312]

@@blankensmithing can you use it for full body in vrchat

[@blankensmithing]

@@wowbrothers6312 🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe. if you can program a websocket connection in vr chat then yes. i haven’t tried it out

[@Arrive-lsens]

I can't sign up for HEROku

[@doridori8916]

hi! is it work on Window? on my my macbook, work very well. but, on my window desktop, doesn't work. (2022.32120) what's wrong?

[@blankensmithing]

Since the body tracking runs through the browser it's supported across devices. Are you getting errors in TD?

[@doridori8916]

@@blankensmithing yes.. same toe file, work on macbook, doesn't work on window desktop. i use my iphone camera both.

[@doridori8916]

macbook td ver 2022.33600/ window td ver 2022.32120

[@blankensmithing]

@@doridori8916 hop on the discord. You can message me on Patreon for the link. can you send a screenshot of the parameters on the TD component on your windows setup?

[@blankensmithing]

Double check the url for your websocket is correct