Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Now we all know the only the Kinect for Windows Device is officially supported when using the Kinect for Windows SDK, but that said, when I saw this project with the academic level documentation, let alone the great code, I just had to highlight it here. Finger Tracking with Kinect SDK for XBOXThis…

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…

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…

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…

Seems like we're on a Gesture recording theme this week so far... Today's project provides another look at recognizing and recording gestures with the Kinect for Windows SDK. In today's we get the source to the main library too, so we can see just how the magic is done... Kinect SDK Dynamic Time…

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,…

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…

Today's project, the second with week from Tom, takes the facial detection feature of the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK and pushes it farther than I think I've seen before, turning your face and facial expressions into a mouse. Use your face as mouse control with KinectReplace your mouse with…

For the next two posts, we're going to do a mini-series on the new InteractionStream from Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7. Both focusing on using them outside of WPF. Today's comes from Ben Lower... Using Kinect InteractionStream Outside of WPFLast month with the release of version 1.7 of our SDK and…

Shai, Friend of the Kinect Gallery, is back, this time with a great introduction/getting started guide for using Kinect Speech recognition capabilities. He takes you from download (which is not as simple as you might can be confusing) to wiring everything up in code. Kinect Speech Recognition –…