Watch the latest Ultimate Coder Challenge videos:
From behind the scenes commentary to breakthrough demos and early prototypes, experience the amazing sights and sounds of the Ultimate Coder Challenge via weekly videos from our Challengers and Judges.
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7
Week 7
Challengers' Videos:
Community Manager Bob Duffy demos Eskil Steenberg's "Seduce" head tracking.
Lee talks about the past seven weeks of Ultimate Coder Challenge, the future of perceptual computing, and gives us a link to the final download of his app.
Lee shows off the new "Perceptual Sparks" feature in his teleconferencing app.
Sixense show us the new hand calibration feature for their Puppet in Motion app.
Check out Sixense's new scenes – and follow Surfer Pig as he takes a walk through the forest and the suburbs.
Infrared5 show off the latest iteration of Kiwi Catapult Revenge, along with game play from GDC.
The Code-Monkey team review the Ultimate Coder Challenge, encouraging their fellow coders and calling out their favorite projects and features.
Week 6
Judges' Videos:
Live from GDC, Ultrabooknews.com reporter Ben Lang interviews Ultimate Coder Chris Allen of Brass Monkeys/Infrared5.
Ben Lang of Ultrabooknews.com interviews Sixense about their Puppet in Motion app.
Challengers' Videos:
Live from GDC, Lee shows us the latest version of his perceptual computing teleconferencing app.
Background noise at GDC poses issues to Lee’s teleconferencing app, fortunately, he’s got other input methods that work in these situations.
Peter shows how gesture controls work to call filters in Huda.
Sixense show a demo of their recording feature in the Puppet In Motion app.
The team take a cue from KISS frontman Gene Simmons with this week’s update.
Eskil shows us a brief demo of how head tracking works in his project.
Brass Monkey/Infrared5 highlights their entry in the challenge "Kiwi Catapult Revenge" at GDC 2013.
Sixense Entertainment highlights their entry in the challenge "Puppet In Motion" at GDC 2013.
Code-Monkeys highlights their entry in the challenge "Stargate Gunship" at GDC 2013.
Lee Bamber of the Game Creators highlights the challenges in the competetion and gives a look into their voice recognition and virtual teleconferenceing entry at GDC 2013.
Simian Squared highlights their entry in the challenge at GDC 2013.
Eskil talks about his Ultimate Coder Challenge project at GDC 2013.
Simian Squared talk about their pottery app for the Ultimate Coder Challenge at GDC 2013.
Eskil discusses his cutting-edge perceptual computing app at GDC 2013.
Week 5
Challengers' Videos:
Lee talks about his longest coding streak ever, along with adding voice recognition and a new scene to his teleconferencing app.
Lee shows us what his teleconferencing app looks like when he attaches the PerC camera in Flip Back Mode (we also get a glimpse of the new medieval church background!).
Lee shows us what the teleconferencing app looks like in action with a traditionally mounted camera; this provides the best gesture and camera data in his experience.
Peter shows us visual progress of where Huda, his photo editing application, is currently sitting in Week 5.
Eskil shows us the first demo of his "Seduce" interface toolkit.
Chris and Steff present their Week 5 update from within the game of Kiwi Catapult Revenge.
We get a walkthrough of the story through the eyes of the Big Bad Wolf: we visit Surfer Pig, then Lumberjack Pig, than Suburban Pig.
Simian Squared gives us a first look at their pottery app, tentatively named "Pot". We see background and a working pottery wheel.
Week 4
Challengers' Videos:
Lee gives us an updated demo of his teleconferencing app, with a look at conferencing in action.
Lee shows us how the Host and Call functions work on two different computers.
Sixense shows us how the traditional Pinch gesture looks like when controlling the mouth of a virtual puppet.
We get to see Sixense's puppet move with gesture control, using the hand normal, position, and openness corresponding to the puppet's movements.
Brass Monkey test different methods of face tracking using OpenCV.
The Code-Monkeys demo Stargate Gunship, discussing the issue of the "UZ Factor" (user laziness).
Week 3
Judges' Video:
Sascha Pallenberg, Nicole Scott, Steve "Chippy" Paine
Sascha, Nicole, and Steve are live from CeBIT, discussing each challenger's progress this week. Watch for the surprise five minutes in!
Challengers' Videos:
Sixense demos controlling a puppet with the camera, as well as workable video recording so users can record and share their own creations.
Lee shows us a live demo of his teleconferencing software, straight from a virtual boardroom.
The Code-Monkeys give updates on how they’re integrating the PerC camera into Stargate Gunship.
Eskil shares progress on his platform layer, called Betray, complete with a plugin interface for modifications
Brass Monkey give us a demo of depth mask displayed in Unity.
Week 2
Judges' Video:
Nicole Scott, Steve "Chippy" Paine, Sascha Pallenberg
Judges discuss the progress in Ultimate Coder, and give each challenger specific advice/constructive criticism. Nicole Scott, Steve Paine, and Sascha Pallenberg participate.
Challengers' Videos:
Brass Monkeys, Simian Squared, Lee Bamber
Challengers discuss what they are doing for Ultimate Coder, what challenges they've faced so far, and what we can look forward to. (full Hangout: http://youtu.be/462Jnv0Cltg)
Chris talks to the team about head tracking, art, and more.
A sample of Huda in action, opening up folders and choosing a picture to view.
Lee talks about his webcam app with technical details, specifically touching on depth and 3D modeling.
An in-depth discussion of what the Code-Monkeys plan to do in the Challenge.
Parody from the Oscars of sock puppets and the movie "Flight” gives us an idea of what Sixense app could produce.
Media Molecule explains a similar vision to Sixense Puppet Platform at the PlayStation 4 showcase.
The Code-Monkeys' team is introduced.
Week 1
Challengers' Videos:
Peter gives us the first draft of Huda, his image editing application.
Huda gets a restyled folder tree, filter control, and folder view – complete with touch.
Code-Monkeys' John Bergquist introduces himself, the Ultimate Coder Challenge, hardware, the team, and what they'll be doing.
Demo of Physynth, “a retro tinker toy where you can play with sound and physics.”
Lee introduces himself, the Ultimate Coder Challenge, and gives a quick tour of his background.
Lee shows us a very cool speeded-up view of building a PC.
Un-boxing video of the Perceptual Computing camera.
Un-boxing video of the convertible Ultrabook.
Playing around with the different form factors of the convertible Ultrabook.
Demo of the Portal 2 Sixense MotionPack with the Razer Hydra.
Demo for CES 2013 using the Creative Labs Gesture Camera and the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK.