A live particle system created in TouchDesigner.

When I was a teen, I worked at a GameStop. We got a lot of Microsoft Kinects as trade-ins. They were pitiful — misfit creations from Microsoft that never really won over the gamers of the world.

Little did I know, I was throwing a bunch of world-class room scanners around like bags of beans. Recently, I got my hands on one again.

This particle system takes in live room video via Microsoft Kinect and tracks your shape with… particles. A range of visual modulations creates a grimy, “digital ghost” vibe.