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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By : Abhijit Jana
Book Image

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By: Abhijit Jana

Overview of this book

Kinect has been a game-changer in the world of motion games and applications since its first release. It has been touted as a controller for Microsoft Xbox but is much more than that. The developer version of Kinect, Kinect for Windows SDK, provides developers with the tools to develop applications that run on Windows. You can use this to develop applications that make interaction with your computer hands-free. This book focuses on developing applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. It is a complete end to end solution using different features of Kinect for Windows SDK with step by step guidance. The book will also help you develop motion sensitive and speech recognition enabled applications. You will also learn about building application using multiple Kinects.The book begins with explaining the different components of Kinect and then moves into to the setting up the device and getting thedevelopment environment ready. You will be surprised at how quickly the book takes you through the details of Kinect APIs. You will use NUI to use the Kinect for Natural Inputs like skeleton tracking, sensing, speech recognizing. You will capture different types of stream, and images, handle stream event, and capture frame. Kinect device contains a motorized tilt to control sensor angles, you will learn how to adjust it automatically. The last part of the book teaches you how to build application using multiple Kinects and discuss how Kinect can be used to integrate with other devices such as Windows Phone and microcontroller.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Developing Applications Using Multiple Kinects

Over the course of the last few chapters, you have gained enough knowledge in developing applications using Kinect for Windows SDK, and now the time is ripe to take the development process one step further by including multiple Kinects in our development domain. Applications can be developed for multiple Kinects using Kinect for Windows SDK. Kinect for Windows SDK supports as many as four Kinect sensors to plug into a single system. With the aid of multiple Kinects, we can make even more feature-rich and interactive applications, such as capturing data from a specific sensor, a failover application where one Kinect acts as a backup and starts automatically when the other one is down, building a security system that detects intrusion in different locations, 3D modeling of data and so on. This takes the app experience to a completely different level.

We need to keep a few things in mind before proceeding to developing applications using...