Kinect

This week's theme, if you haven't guessed yet, is going to be a "We shipped it!" or "We're at v1, baby" or a "No Beta SDK's For You!" or "Lets Chat v1" week. Today we're going to highlight a cool series by Dan Fernandez that will get going with Kinect for…

The next in our "Skeleton week" is a tip on providing smoother skeleton movement. [# KINECT] HowTo: Soften the detection of movements in the skeletonHi, While we await the final SDK for developers with Kinect leave in a few days [GD: which by now is out], we still have to adjust quite a…

As everyone reading this blog, and those in the Kinect for Windows space, knows today is a big day. From what was a cool peripheral for the XBox 360 last year, the Kinect for Windows SDK and now dedicated Kinect for Windows hardware device, has taken the world by storm. In the last year we've seen…

The second project in our "skeleton week" takes us a little further down the path of understanding and using this feature of the Kinect for Windows SDK Getting started with Microsoft Kinect SDK - The Full SkeletonArticle Index Getting started with Microsoft Kinect SDK - The Full Skeleton…

To kick off our "Skeleton Week" we're going to start with a simple, getting start project. Kinect Fundamentals #4: Implementing Skeletal TrackingHi and welcome to tutorial #4 in my Kinect Fundamentals tutorial. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can implement Skeletal Tracking using…

This is going to be an exciting week for the Kinect for Windows device and SDK and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have some "Special Edition" posts later this week. But in the mean time, we're going to be talking code this week. The rest of this week is going to be a…

The final inspirational project in our run up to v1 week is a project that looks to use the Kinect to help save lives by teaching CPR. Mini-VREM ProjectThe main objective of this research project is the development of a low-cost training platform for quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation of lay and…

Today's Hardware Friday post comes to us from Dan Thyer (@LogicalDan) and takes us back to the Netduino and Kinect world (plus just looks kind of fun). Home Automation with Netduino and KinectHome automation has been an interest of mine for a long time. There is a bunch of bad technology in the…

Today's inspirational project shows how in the future we might be able to make the virtual Kinect 3D real... Geomagic demonstrates Kinect-To-Print for 3D printers (video)We're still waiting to check out 3D Systems Corporation's 3D printing service at CES. In the meantime, Geomagic, which powers the…

In a word, Awesome... (sorry, couldn't resist) Board of AwesomenessMembers of the Chaotic Moon team are like little kids—you tell us we can’t do something, we’re sure going to go out and do it. And when it comes to technology, that rebellious side is magnified by a trillion. So, when the limitations…