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: https://patreon.com/tblankensmith

Link to the No Kinect Website: https://no-kinect.netlify.app/
[Note] you can tack in a query parameter to your socket server by using ?wsURL=
eg. https://no-kinect.netlify.app/?wsURL=wss://our-socket-server.herokuapp.com:443
This makes it easy to share a permanent URL to your phone.

You’ll need a free login to https://github.com and https://heroku.com/.
Link to the WebSocket Server: https://github.com/torinmb/Socket-Server-Template

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: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgfxkm9xFocaQvweC3KF3uIeQyDhsLhWX. 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