Rock God Pose
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This web experiment uses your device's webcam and challenges you to strike a pose similar to one of several 'rock gods' of days past. Your goal is to match the pose shown to you at each phase!

Thie app is designed for webcam-equipped laptops, Chromebooks and iPads. It is NOT likely to work with a mobile device.

If all fails you can still get a sense of the functionality by watching this short video of the app in action.

The app makes use of machine learning and human pose estimation. We use Ml5 and tensorflow.js to deploy and make use of the PoseNet training set. Using PoseNet, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) examines each frame of video from the webcam and then detects, decodes and scores human body keypoints (e.g., wrist, nose, etc.)

To try this you need a webcam in a well-lit area. Concentrate on matching head, hands and hips positioning, framing yourself in the dashes to match the Rock God's framing.