Kinect SDK

Today's project is a simple example, but one that will help you add that professional and completeness to your Kinect for Windows SDK applications... [# KINECTSDK] HowTo: Detect the sensor state change and sensor disconnectionIf we go ahead we can see in KinectSensor we have a special event to…

Why aren't computers smart enough to know when we're not sitting in front of them? To know the difference between us sitting in front of them watching a video and when we actually leave the computer? Hey, couldn't the Kinect tell if there was someone in front of the computer or not? I wish someone…

Today's project takes us to a place where that we have not visited often, using the Kinect in a browser, melding HTML5, JavaScript and the Kinect... KinectJSKinectJS, (aspiring to) bring motion controls to HTML5.:: Download Here :: Try the Demos :: Documentation ( work in progress) :: Youtube…

Kinect and AutoCAD? Yes, you sure can... Note: These samples are currently based on the Kinect for Windows Beta 2 SDK and while since the v1 release I've tried to avoid Beta 2 projects, there's been some requests for more LOB Kinect usage examples and I've not seen many/any AutoCAD & Kinect…

Can't get enough of Rob Miles? You love his C# Yellow Book and Windows Phone Programming Blue Book? Wish he had a free 58 page book on the Kinect, that goes from start to finish? Welcome to the Purple Book! Using Kinect for Windows with XNAThis material, created by Rob Miles (University of Hull,…

This level 100 Techdays 2012 the Netherlands session by Rob Miles provides some great information, demos and development examples for the Kinect. Kinect Mayhem: Psychedelic ghost cameras, Virtual mallets, a Kiss Detector and a Head Tapping GameIf you want to find out just what a Kinect does and…

In the final installment of the Kinect for Windows Quickstart series, we’ll discuss how you can leverage the audio features of Kinect in your application, including: How to use your Kinect to determine the angle and confidence for where a sound is coming from How to use the KinectAudioSource to…

In the skeletal tracking Quickstart series video, we'll discuss: How skeleton data retrieves joint information for 20 joints (head, hands, hip center, etc) How skeletal tracking works and how you can choose what skeletons to track using tracking IDs. How you can tweak TransformSmoothParameters based…

In the working with depth data Quickstart video, we'll cover: An overview of how depth data represents the distance and player for every pixel An overview of Default and Near Mode and what features are supported in both An explanation of what distance data the Kinect returns including knowing when…

In the Camera Fundamentals Quickstart video, you’ll learn: How to leverage the AllFramesReady event to synchronize data between the color, depth, and skeletal frames The supported resolutions for the color and depth cameras How to read the color byte array from the ColorImageFrame event and how to…