We all know about the complex and expensive types of hardware we can use to track people in a space. But often times we don't really need that level of fidelity or have the budgets for that type of hardware. More often than not, installations just need a simple trigger to detect the general presence of a person and that can be done in with nothing more than a simple webcam. In TouchDesigner, we can get a system like this up and running with the Blob Track TOP.
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