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poseHook on Windows Pc

Developed By: hollyhook, adaptive music technology

License: Free

Rating: 5,0/5 - 1 votes

Last Updated: April 20, 2024

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version v2.0
Size 54.5 MB
Release Date January 07, 24
Category Music & Audio Apps

App Permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (4)]

What's New:
Replaced poseNet model with improved BlazeNet from MediaPipe, see data sheet at https://google.github.io/mediapipe/solutions/posenew in v2.0- option to mirror... [see more]

Description from Developer:
This is an app that continuously detects the body parts of a single person in the frames seen by your device's camera. It transmits the detected positions to a host in form of... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download poseHook and install on Windows PC. poseHook is free Music & Audio app, developed by hollyhook, adaptive music technology. Latest version of poseHook is v2.0, was released on 2024-01-07 (updated on 2024-04-20). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 50. Overall rating of poseHook is 5,0. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 1 users, 1 users had rated it 5*, 1 users had rated it 1*.

How to install poseHook on Windows?

Instruction on how to install poseHook on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install poseHook on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Install poseHook using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "poseHook" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install poseHook on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "poseHook" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: v2.0.

Download poseHook v2.0 on Windows PC – 54.5 MB

This is an app that continuously detects the body parts of a single person in the frames seen by your device's camera. It transmits the detected positions to a host in form of OSC messages. OSC is a UDP based protocol understood by many music or visual art software, e.g. TouchDesigner, Max for Live, Resolume Arena, etc.

You can download Ableton Live sets demonstrating OSC conversion to MIDI, and much more:
https://bitbucket.org/constanze/posehook/

Detected are 33 body points: nose, mouth left/right corner eyes, ears, etc. It is possible to configure the OSC address names, and IP / port of the receiver. It doesn't support detection of multiple persons. poseHook displays the detected points on top of the camera picture, and plots them.

You can replay the last sent 30 OSC messages in a loop by pushing the play button on the plot.

poseHook uses MediaPipe BlazeNet for the detection. The OSC messages are sent as fast as they are detected. A detection rate of > 10fps is possible with a S10-like phone.

On host side, you can receive OSC messages with various kinds of musical or creative coding software. Note that the data is quite noisy, so you have to take that into account when creating an effect.

Questions how to use poseHook? Or would you like to share your idea for improvement? Get in contact with us on twitter: @holllyhook (trippple L).

Detection works to 100% offline, the data is neither saved nor shared, besides of the intended OSC usage.

poseHook is open source, the code is available at https://bitbucket.org/constanze/posehook/. For a limited time, you can view the poses detected by poseHook v2 online. Send the OSC data to 18.192.229.240, and open http://ec2-18-192-229-240.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081 in the browser. Source code for the demo is available, ready to be used as a starting points for p5.js: https://bitbucket.org/constanze/posehook-demo/
Replaced poseNet model with improved BlazeNet from MediaPipe, see data sheet at https://google.github.io/mediapipe/solutions/pose

new in v2.0
- option to mirror X
- combine OSC
- camera flip (crashes sometimes)


For a limited time, you can view the poses detected by poseHook v2 online. For this, you have to send the OSC data to 18.192.229.240, and open http://ec2-18-192-229-240.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081 in the browser. Code is at https://bitbucket.org/constanze/posehook-demo
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.