Kinect SDK

In setting up your development environment we'll discuss the following topics: The basics of using the Managed API The key developer resources to use in your application like the KinectWpfViewers that ship Kinect SDK Kinect Explorer sample and the Coding4Fun Toolkit for skeletal scaling that will be…

This video covers the basics of installing and using the Kinect sensor using v1 of the An overview of the Kinect for Windows Quickstart Series An overview of what sensors and information you can use with the Kinect hardware Demos: We’ll show what gets installed on your PC when you install the Kinect…

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…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Mark DeFalco discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:30] Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript (Ander Hejlsberg), TypeScript: JavaScript Development at Application Scale (Soma), Announcing TypeScript Preview for Visual Studio (Chris Koenig)…

Rob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the Kinect for Windows SDK. Download the 1.5 Release at KinectforWindows.com [00:33] Overview of the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 Release…

This week on Channel 9, Clint and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:46] Kinect for Windows Fall Roadmap (Craig Eisler) [1:44] Releasing the new Sample Browser for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 (Jialiang Ge) [2:39] How To Take Photographs From…

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…

At TechEd this year, we had a chance to catch up with Tim Huckaby, founder of  InterKnowlogy and Microsoft Regional Director on what applications you can build with Kinect. Tim shows off some coolreal-world applications driven by Kinect including interactive signage and how Kinect can…