Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Today's inspirational project, coming to us via Jon C. Arnold, yet again shows how the Kinect is being used in the real world, to solve real world problems and being used in unusual, but awesome, ways. Microsoft Kinect Adds to Utility Health and Safety Record Performances with Partner SiemensWith…

This inspirational video from Hönigsberg & Düvel Datentechnik GmbH provides an example of how the Kinect is being used in new and unique ways. Kinash turns walls into touchable surfacesWith the workplace of the future in mind, Lars Keller and Karim El Jed started a little project that resulted…

Today's project is an cool inspirational example of how the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK can be used as part of a robot to provide some human like behavior, like following you with its "eyes" as you move about the room... Humanoid robot torso A1[Machine Translated] A larger project in…

Today's project helps meld to different worlds, Flash and the Kinect. Yep, you can develope AIR applications that integrate with the Kinect with this extension (oh and the source for the extension is available too)... AIRKinect 2.2 – now with open-source native codeIt’s been 3 months since the…

Today's How To series is from the one and only elbruno and walks us through the Kinect for Windows SDK Facial Recognition capability, from concept to code... [#KINECT] HowTo: Use Face Recognition with #KinectSdk (i)Buenas, One of the innovations that were incorporated into the Kinect SDK 1.5 was the…

Today's inspiration project is another "Wow" project from Microsoft Research and continues to push the boundaries of what you might believe possible with the Kinect. KinÊtre: Animation + WhimsyKinÊtre lets anyone create playful 3D animations. Imagine you are asked to produce a 3D…

Today's project provides a great example of a kind we don't often highlight here, using OpenCV and the Kinect for Windows SDK. Using OpenCV 2 with Kinect SDK 1.5OpenCV always makes a great combination with the Kinect SDK. I’m currently working on a project where I need to combine the two. Optical…

Today's project is an inspirational project that provides another example of how the Kinect can be used to provide unique interface to virtual exploring. Found via Develop Kinect site's Kinect Virtual Remote Strolling post) Remote Strolling - virtual strolling that feels almost physically…

Today's project is one that's an example of something I don't believe I've seen before for the Kinect. The example app is simple, but that's great since that helps keep the noise level down and yet clearly highlights the example's intent. Kinect Player Radar Using C# and WPFIn this post i'm going to…

It looks like it's a Double David week. Friend of the Gallery, David Catuhe, who's Kinect Toolbox project we highlighted yesterday, has taken an additional step to help you in your Kinect For Windows development journey... Book about Kinect and Gestures, "Programming with the Kinect for Windows…