Kinect SDK

Just a quick note to direct you all to post yesterday on the Kinect for Windows blog, What’s Ahead: A Sneak Peek "... We are also hard at work on our 1.5 release, which will be available at the end of May. Among the most exciting new capabilities is Kinect Studio, an application that will allow…

I thought this an interesting project which shows off some of the things that you can do with the Kinect Depth and video... Grax ARK (Augmented Reality with Kinect)Library and sample code for building augmented reality Kinect applications.Sample code is available for WPF and XNA applications. (The…

Do I really need to introduce the author of this project, Carl Franklin, of .Net Rocks fame? You know he likes playing with cool things and now he's turned his attention to the Kinect... GesturePakGesturePak is a speech-driven gesture recording WPF app and a matcher class for .NET developers that…

The video of inspirational project was something I thought very cool but also had me laughing (This project had me at Rex... But more importantly, it provides a very forward thinking view of how businesses can use the Kinect for Windows sensor and Kinect for Windows SDK to build applications and…

Using the Kinect with CAD applications seems like a match made in heaven. We've seen the 3D, virtual environments, goggles and gloves hooked into CAD systems. Now with the Kinect, we can get the NUI "hands on" interaction without all the gear... KinectCADThis project provides a gesture…

Today's project is one that is one that is inspirational in a couple of ways. One is that it shows a great idea of thinking outside the box when displaying your skills and experience. The other is that the just released tutorial can help you create a portfolio of your own... Interactive portfolio…

Today's inspiration project provides an example of how the Kinect is being used to control robots. There's no code to download, but make sure you check out the doc's as they have a good bit of information and details. Gesture Control ApplicationThe Gesture Control Application allows to telecontrol…

There's a number of cool things with the free binary download. While there's no source to peek at, the Steve and the team at amuletdevices.com have written up a couple great blog posts that discuss their project in a fair amount of detail and depth, while at the same time talking about how they…

While this project is a little rough around the edges, the output looks to be worth the effort. It's also something I've seen asked for a number of times, the mapping of Kinect gestures to a character model... XNA Skinned Model - Kinect RigThis is a XNA application, written in C#, using the Kinect…

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…