Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Today's Kinect Project is one of the favorite kinds, controlling PowerPoint with gestures, via the Kinect. This one is different in that it's based on a PowerPoint add-in, so has a better connection (no pun intended) to the presentation (i.e. no need for SendKey tricks) Creating a PowerPoint add-in…

Today's inspirational, just for fun, video shows that even IT guys can get into the Kinect world (well, kind of, not really, but still this is kind of fun Just For Fun–KINECTing Orchestrator RunbooksHello Readers/Viewers! As you can see, I am really trying hard to get both of my quotas met: blog…

Today's project by Tom Kerkhove provides a nice introduction and example of using the video from the Kinect in a cool way... Tutorial – Kinect TelevisionWelcome to the very first Kinecting for Windows tutorial. IntroductionThe goal of this application is to create a television where you are in the…

Today's project Andrej Kyselica isn't complete yet (well not completely published), but it has so much potential, and a cool video, that I couldn't resist not highlighting it... The KinectinatorThe Kinectinator is a Kinect-controlled turret. If a human walks in range of the Kinect, the Kinectinator…

The second in our two part InteractionStream without WPF series comes from András Velvárt, where he dives into a good deal of depth, not only showing how it works, but explains the details behind it too... Kinect Interactions with(out) WPF – Part III: Demystifying the Interaction Stream In this…

Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back, this week with two different updates and projects. Today... Kinect Magic Cursor version 1.7 with Gesture supportI am releasing a new version of Kinect Magic Cursor which works much like the last version except it now uses gestures to simulate the left…

Today's inspirational video comes to us via the team at Second Story where they show off some of the work they are doing with using two Kinects at the same time... Lose your OcclusionDepth-sensing cameras like the Kinect give us the opportunity to mix physical environments and virtual environments,…

As promised on Tuesday, here's this week's second project by David Renton, this time with him showing off (with code) how to do a "green screen" without a green screen... Kinect No Need 4 Green – The Green Screen without a Green ScreenThis little piece of software allows you to produce…

While I don't usually highlight stuff you have to pay for (though they do offer a great free trial), this is the first course of this nature at pluralsight and since it covers our favorite hardware device, well, I can make an exception this time. New course: Building a Real Application with…

Today is is like a six for one deal day where we highlight a series of articles from Soul Solutions about our favorite hardware device (and how you can start building with it faster) Kinect For Windows Interactions GalleryAs the Kinect For Windows SDK has started to evolve, the team has been adding…