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Today's projects takes us back to AutoCAD, with an update to Kean's last mentioned here, AutoCAD and the Kinect for v1, as well as using Face Tracking inside of AutoCAD... Integrating Kinect with AutoCAD 2013As promised in the last post, today we’re going to see the adjusted point cloud import…

Todays' Mobile Monday project is a Windows Phone toolkit that I've just recently found, has just released a v2 and provides many nice touches, such as a very complete sample app, baked in support for MVVM and more... Devphone ToolkitDevphone toolkit is a collection of Windows phone Controls and…

Speech recognition is likely a key part of any Kinect for Windows SDK application. And while there are a number of examples available, I thought this one distilled it down into an easy to follow, and better yet understand, series of development steps... Speech Recognition for the Kinect, the Easy…

Today's Hardware Friday post is an example of how we can make mesh our software and hardware worlds, all the while taking advantage of plug-and-play like features. Michael Dodaro, friend of the blog shows us how we take the Plug-and-play features of Mayhem and hook them up to the plug-and-play…

We've seen VB.net Kinect for Windows SKD code examples/projects. C++ examples/projects. And, of course, C# examples/projects. What about Java (Yes, Java)? What if you're a Java dev and live in Eclipse? Today's post is just for you... Microsoft Kinect for Java and Eclipse in JnectAn area…

While we don't highlight commercial items hear much, this one looks like a perfect exception. Rob Miles, Friend of the Gallery (Managing your Kinect with Rob Miles' Kinect Manager & The Purple Book... "Using Kinect for Windows with XNA") has a new Kinect book coming out July 2012…

Today's Wild Wednesday project is an open source project governed by NASA, via open.NASA. This is a large open source C++ project that lets you run your own space missions, how cool is that? We're talking real space missions, not a game or like, but real, well simulated real, missions. GMAT…

I've seen it asked a few times, "Where are the Kinect for Windows (aka PC) games?" Well I've been keeping my eyes open for them and so as soon as I saw this, I knew I had to post it. The source is not available, but at least the game is free. BTW, I found this via 123Kinect.com's New PC…

Last week the Kinect team released an update for the Kinect Developer Toolkit, v1.5.1. While it's a minor update, there's a number of improvements that I'm sure you'll want... Kinect for Windows: Developer Toolkit Update (v1.5.1)Back in May, we released the Kinect for Windows SDK/Runtime v1.5 in a…

With last week's announcement of Windows 8 (which you can now catch on-demand here, Windows Phone Summit), it feels like a Mobile Monday kind of day. With touch devices, like the Windows Phone, it's important that we take advantage of gestures, making them a integral part of our applications. You're…