A few months ago we highlighted a series of inspiration Kinect projects from students and faculty in China, The Kinect knows no national boundaries, as shown by Chinese University students pushing the Kinect's boundaries.Yesterday in, Students, now is your chance to join the Kinect Effect!, I…
Don't miss any opportunity to market your Windows Phone apps! Each one of your apps can serve as an ad for your other apps. Learn how to add a listing of everything you have published in Marketplace to each of your apps. Even better, it will always be up to…
Student? Teacher? Excited about the Kinect? Want a chance to win cool stuff and compete with your peers from around the world? Think you have an idea that, with the Kinect, will change the world?Join the Kinect EffectThe Imagine Cup 2012 Kinect Fun Labs Challenge asks students to think about…
Today's Mobile Monday project is a fun little Windows Phone game that lets play with physics and Pirates. How's that for a combination?Pirates! for Windows PhoneTable of ContentsIntroduction System Requirements Farseer Physics Engine Adjusting The Game To 60 Frames Per Second Converting Images Into…
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Duncan discuss the week's top developer news, including:[0:39] Mark your calendar: We are hosting a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event on Feb 29 in Barcelona! [1:52] C++ AMP Open Specification (S.Somasegar) [4:08] C# to C++ – A Somewhat…
Daniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtracker, a Microsoft BizSpark One company, discusses with Zhiming Xue the enabling technologies behind their geosocial music service Soundtracker. The free global geosocial internet radio service, which currently supports smartphone and web users with 12…
It is that time of the year. You are most likely sitting down with each of your team members and are helping them with their personal development plans. On this episode of AlignIT Manager Tech Talk, Ruth Morton and Jonathan Rozenblit talk with Stuart Ngai about the importance of training as…
Read the full post >>Following his presentation at the East of Toronto .NET User Group (@easttorontoug), Gladstone Grant (@gladstonegrant) takes on Jonathan's questions as well as some from the viewers about the opportunities developers have working with the Microsoft platform.GLADSTONE…
Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.In this episode, we are very sad to bid Steve Marx farewell as he looks for new challenges outside of Microsoft. Fortunately, we're able to…
Last but not least is one of those must have toolkits, one of those hard learned repositories of BST (blood, sweat and tears)...Coding4Fun Kinect ToolkitUpdated for Kinect for Windows SDK v1.0!This project requires the Kinect for Windows SDK. If you want to learn how to use the Kinect for Windows…