Kinect

This is a commercial (though you can try it free) development kit that looks like a cool way to help you speed your Kinect development projects forward. ZigfuZigfu is the easiest way to make and play Kinect apps. Download the plugin, hook up your sensor, and enjoy the future now! The Zigfu…

The boys at Coding4Fun really out-did themselves this time. They created Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots and showed them off to the party-goers at last nights opening party for the SXSW Interactive track, host by Frog and Microsoft. Essentially 2 humans each use their own Kinect to…

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…

Today is a two for one day. Same presentation, same author, same basic topic, but for two different audiences, resulting in two different information experiences... (Think one is slide heaver and one is very code heavy and anti-slide) Rocking the Enterprise with the Kinect ExperienceCan you imagine…

Today's inspirational 16 minute video is a overview of what 50 developers created in a 8 hour Kinect hack-a-thon. There are a number of interesting projects demo'd in this video. I think my favorite is the dog demo, but that could be because my dog is staring at me right now, looking for a treat…

I've been wanting to share this diagram for a while and since today is going to be an "interesting news" day [and insert a Leap Year day joke here too] I thought it a good fit... Kinect for Windows SDK - NUIThe Kinect for Windows SDK provides the tools and APIs, both native…

Speaking of game development and the Kinect (no that's not this week's theme, but...), I saw this on the Kinect Forums and like yesterday's project, thought there might be some of you who would find it useful. [UDKinect] Kinect API for UDKI have been working on an API to use the Kinect for Windows…

Unity is is officially huge in the gaming industry, so when I saw this I thought that there had to be some of your that might find it interesting or useful... Bringing the Kinect SDK in to UnityInstall the Unity PackageThe pre-built Unity package includes all of the scripts required to start running…

We've had code, hardware, inspirational posts this week. Now it's time for a little learning and getting started... Practical Windows Kinect In C# (Introduction To Kinect, Getting started with Windows Kinect SDK 1.0)This e-book is for Version 1.0 of the Kinect SDK together with the Windows version…

With the release of the Kinect for Windows Sensor and v1 SDK, commercial applications are now officially supported. While here in the Gallery we're going to continue to focus on source available and inspirational projects, we're also going to occasionally sprinkle in some of the cooler commercial…