Coding4Fun

Today's project provides a nice introduction to the new Face Tracking capability in the Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 using C++ Face Tracking SDK in Kinect For Windows 1.5After a long journey, my team at Microsoft shipped Face Tracking SDK as part of Kinect For Windows 1.5! I worked on the 3D…

Today's project is from the author of the Kinect web site template that we mentioned in this post, Got an Kinect App? Need a web site? Here's a template for you...  Human BodyThis application helps children learn English. It uses Drag and Drop algorithm for Kinect. The aim of this app is to…

With last week's release of Windows 8 Release Preview and Visual Studio 2012 RC, the Metro style app building cycle is going to pick up serious steam. To help you all with that, in the coming week's I'm going to focus the Metro Monday posts on frameworks, toolkits and tools that will help you build…

Today's inspirational video shows how one enterprising student meshed chess, a robotic arm and the Kinect into a very cool project Kinect-Controlled Chess Playing RobotAs cool as that title was to write, the video is even cooler. This is one of those articles I post simply because of the purely…

Today's Hardware Friday post isn't about hardware...directly. What if you'd just like to play around creating logic circuits? Or maybe use a program to help you learn how to design them? Oh yeah, and where the source for that program was available too? LogicCircuitDescriptionLogicCircuit – is…

Today's inspirational project shows how one team is working with the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK to create an augmented reality real... Occlusion detection and virtual object manipulation in augmented reality with the Microsoft KinectAugmented reality (AR) is limited by how you can interact…

Today's inspirational project shows how teams are looking to use the Kinect to help change the world (for a few at least). one interesting point was that this project used a product we've mentioned previously, ZDK = Zigfu Development Kit = Commercial Kinect Development library for Unity3D and…

Today's project is something that I've found cool for years, since my Amiga days, where raytracing was 'the thing'. Today's project takes takes raytracing and moves it into the Azure cloud... Use the power of Azure to create your own raytracerThe power available in the cloud is growing every day. So…

Today's inspirational project, coming via a comment from Bryan on his Kinect & PAC's (Programmable Automation Controller) project, shows off a new feature in the new Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5, Face Tracking. (I'm not sure what this says about me, but when I saw this, my first thought was,…

Today we revisit a popular project, Kinect Angles Version 2 - Learning angles by doing, that has just been updated and officially kid tested... Kinect Angles v2.4This release features a new camera sound when the game takes a picture, improved keyboard entry for high score names and other minor bug…