Kinect SDK

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 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 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 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…

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 week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:26] The latest Kinect for Windows [v1.7] SDK is here [01:38] Windows Azure: New Hadoop service + HTML5/JS (CORS), PhoneGap, Mercurial and Dropbox support (Scott Guthrie), Getting Started with the Mobile…

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…

Well you all know the big news right? The Kinect for Windows SDK v1.7 is coming out today. This is a release that many have been looking forward too and includes some frankly awesome features... Hot Links: Latest SDK announcement Download the SDK  Kinect for Windows key features See Latest SDK…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian Peek discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:42] March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling) [2:07] Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar) [3:33] Visual Studio…

The first project post on the Kinect Gallery (almost two years ago... wow, Of course our first Kinect for Windows SDK Project has to involve a Light Saber!) was about using the Kinect to give you Jedi like powers (okay, a Light Saber, close enough). Seems fitting to jump forward a couple years, and…