Kinect SDK

When I saw this, the first thing I thought was just how cool a thing an amusement park could build with this. Gone could be the days of the "You must be taller than this bar," instead replaced with an interactive, themed for the park, height measurement experience. Image standing there…

Teaching resources have a special place in my heart and in seeing this course, 34 class rooms sessions, with all the lesson plans, resources, labs, etc for learning to develop with the Kinect, well, how could I not share it? Game Development with XNA and Microsoft Technologies: Kinect…

Today's inspirational project is one that you just have to see to believe. It shows how the Kinect, melded with a projector can make learning (and more) into something fairly amazing... Spatial Augmented Game EnvironmentThe Spatial Augmented Game Environment, known as S.A.G.E., is a project that…

Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library) Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking (Kinect For Windows)The Kinect For Windows SDK…

This week's project provides another means to remotely connect to a Kinect, this time using Websockets... Valentia KinectionValentia Kinection is open source community project. Purpose of Kinection is to provide user ability to publish Kinect data on socket, which then can be utilised on remote…

Have you heard of Mayhem (and here)? "An open source application with a near-zero learning curve. Mayhem provides a collection of triggers events and reactions, allowing non-programmers to use their computers to automate… anything! What sort of things? Chase your cat off the couch…

Today's project shows how even Silverlight can get into the Kinect game... Kinect for SilverlightIn this project you will find a Silverlight 5 library for the Kinect. This is made possible by using the Silverlight P/Invoke feature which will call the native Kinect SDK v1.0 API. Along with this…

The rest of this week is going to be a Kinect on CodePlex week. The first is an interesting project that provides a glimpse of what we're seeing the Kinect used often with, interactive digital signage... VodigiProject DescriptionVodigi is a free, open source, interactive digital signage software…

I'm not sure what's funnier, this project itself or the fact that I happened to have a like rocket launcher laying around myself... In any case, this is an awesome series that walks you through a number of things, pieces and parts and puts the Kinect to some great use (I mean, who doesn't need a NUI…

Since we last highlighted Rob Miles' work in  the The Purple Book... "Using Kinect for Windows with XNA" post, he's been a busy guy working on another book for the Kinect. And in his spare time, he's provided us a peek some of the code from the book... Kinect Manager available for…