Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Today's inspirational project shows how the Kinect has a future helping in stroke rehabilitation, gait analysis and laprascopic surgery... Innovative Tech Man*, 3 students and a Kinect SDKI’ve been scratching my head about how to kick my Ubelly career off, but luckily (as things often do) it all…

The SDK Beta 2 versions of these tutorials have been highlighted here before (Tutorial: XNA 4.0 + Kinect for Windows SDK and Simple example for implementing skeletal tracking), so it makes sense to highlight the SDK v1 updated versions too... Kinect Fundamentals Tutorial Series is updated to…

Today's inspiration project is another example of how the Kinect is being used to provide experiences and interactions unlike anything we've seen before (outside of the movies at least)... <danceroom | Spectroscopy>danceroom Spectroscopy (dS) is part video game, part science visualization,…

This project, StartMenu / Candescent NUI, was one of the earlier ones we highlighted and given its recent advances and support for the Kinect for Windows SDK v1, it's time to revisit it. In a nut shell this project show how Hand and Finger detection can be done with the Kinect... Candescent NUIHand…

Today's project takes us back to Unity and to a project we highlighted last August, Kinect, Unity 3D and University of Central Florida's Interactive Systems & User Experience Lab brings us Kinect Football! KinectSDK / Unity3D Interface…

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…