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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By : Abhijit Jana
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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

Draw What I Want – a speech-enabled application


Draw What I Want is a cool demo application, which will draw a set of predefined objects with a specific color using your voice command. For example, if you say "draw red circle", the application will draw a red circle. Let's start building the application by applying the learning from whatever concepts we have covered.

Setting up the project

The steps for implementing the code are as follows:

  1. Start a new instance of Visual Studio.

  2. Create a new project by navigating through File | New Project.

  3. You will see the New Project dialog box. Choose C# as our development language and select WPF Application Template and type the name as DrawWhatIWant.

  4. From the Solution Explorer window, right-click on the Reference folder and select Add References.

  5. Include a reference of the Microsoft.Kinect assembly.

  6. As we are going to interact with Microsoft Speech API, include a reference to the Microsoft.Speech assembly.

  7. From Solution Explorer open the MainWindow.xaml file...