Rob Relyea

• Rob Relyea: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 Released!

  Nov 12, 2011 at 5:03 AM

  @Burkholder - look at the set of related functions that Bas mentions. I'll have to check if we have a Color -> Depth mapping. Most scenarios I've seen that deal with both color and depth, start with Depth, and get the appropriate Color for each "pixel" by calling GetColorPixelCoordinatesFromDepthPixel.

  @Bas - yes, the naming and locations of all those "sensor space mapping" methods is a bit suspect. We've not yet been able to go make sense of them, but have many suggestions from people like you to do so. We understand the need.

  @Ahmad - Not with our beta2 build. You may not, in the same process, use 2 kinects (with skeletal tracking turned on both). I believe that having 2 apps on the same machine...would allow both apps to use a different Kinect and get skeletal tracking going.

  @Mo Relax - take a look at the readme and the documentation and the program files entry for the sdk and you'll find the location. %KINECTSDK_DIR%\Samples\Bin has a compiled version of that app. %KINECTSDK_DIR%\Samples\ also (in b2) has a .zip file with the source code for all the C#/C++ samples. (unzip to my docs, or related for best results). We are considering building a sample browser app (like Xbox SDK and DirectX SDK) to make it easy to run the different samples, or install the source code, or jump to docs about the sample.

  sorry for the delay...it has been a crazy week!

• Rob Relyea: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 Released!

  Nov 05, 2011 at 4:45 AM

  @Alex_Toldeo, Richard.Hein, aL3891 - thanks.

  @Chris - will pass that idea along to our website folks. wouldn't be a slam dunk right now, because getting Kinect working in the browser isn't fully plumbed.

  All-
  Ch9 posted a good summary post linking to all the new stuff (new site, new blog, new twitter, new release, etc...) from yesterday: http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Happy-Birthday-Kinect

   

• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live

  Aug 10, 2011 at 7:43 AM

  @fo_shizzle- Haven't announced a timeframe for Joint orientations. It is a common request.

• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live

  Aug 04, 2011 at 6:07 PM

  @CKurt - I don't represent the Avatar Kinect team...will have to check.

  Face tracking and finger tracking are interesting directions that you could imagine we could take the SDK. See FAQ #7 in NUI discussion forum (http://bit.ly/KinectSDKForums).

  Skeletal tracking will be improved over time to work better for Windows oriented scenarios, including sitting down.

• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live

  Aug 04, 2011 at 11:21 AM

  @ZippyV - Yes, 64 bit support is in our plan.

  For now, you can run on 64 bit windows as a 32 bit app.
  Our driver has a 64-bit version already. The runtime doesn't yet.

  If all goes well, we'll likely have a 64 bit release in our next beta.

• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live

  Aug 03, 2011 at 9:11 PM

  @adam hecktman - thanks for the kind words. i marked your post as spam though...cause this isn't about me.

  @shaggygi - love the idea. can you post that question to the forums (http://bit.ly/KinectSDKForums). likely somebody has example code. if not, we'll try to whip some up.

  @Bas - would love to know about your sync goals...if we don't yet meet them. yes, looking forward to continued progress in beta 2 and beyond!

• Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live

  Aug 03, 2011 at 12:45 PM

  All - The details of most of the changes that came with this release are published here: http://bit.ly/KinectSDKBeta1RefreshDetails

  @felix9: yes, I moved to the Kinect for Windows team in June, and had been working parttime in my new role for a month before. Announcement twitter post from June 20th.

  @aL_: Would love to know details of your request. You want to link to the depthFrame (and all the depth data) from the skeleton frame. Have you already requested that on the forums (http://bit.ly/KinectSDKForums)? If so, we probably already have it tracked in our workitem db. If not, please do.

   

• XAML in .NET 4

  May 26, 2009 at 2:27 PM

  Loading an XHTML document into an object graph, is one thing.  Getting that rendered, is likely a much bigger chunk of work.

  You likely could build a set of types that represented the xhtml data, with the appropriate properties.
  Using XmlnsDefinitionAttribute, you could map the xhtml namespace to your clr namespaces.

  You could write a custom XamlSchemaContext to support case-insensitve lookup and support for "-" in a property name.

  Seems less crazy than I thought before because you aren't trying to do this generally, but in order to consume a file type.

  However, you should contrast this option with other XML to Object migration technologies like XML to LinQ and XmlSerialization...and Mike thinks there may be a HTML to LinQ on codeplex (or the like).

  Thanks, Rob

• XAML in .NET 4

  May 24, 2009 at 8:05 AM

  LaurentP-

  Very intersting scenario.  I occasionally ask the ASP.NET team why they don't use XAML...

  XamlReader.Load in v3 can likely meet most of your needs.  An attached property doesn't need a DependencyProperty, it can work with just the static setter and getter methods. As long as you can build your XAML Vocabulary (set of elements/properties) with the right CLR shape, PresentationFramework.dll may be ok for you.

  Thanks for the feedback.. we'll keep listening to feedback about this.  Our list of future work items is large...to take advantage of our new XAML infrastructure...

  Thanks, Rob

• XAML in .NET 4

  May 22, 2009 at 8:58 AM

  LaurentP -

  You aren't the first to request a .NET 3.x version of System.Xaml.dll.  Currently we have no plans to offer that, but I'd love to know what server side scenarios you'd like to use XAML for. 

  Of course, you can use XamlReader.Load() from PresentationFramework.dll for .NET 3.x now...

  We have no plans to release System.Xaml.dll individually under any open source license...whatever the rest of .NET does, we'll do.

  Thanks, Rob

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