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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

Dealing with the Kinect status


The Kinect sensor needs an external power supply to get the camera, IR sensor, and motor to work properly. Even after following all the standard practices and measures, your system might not detect any of the components of Kinect if there is any problem with your device. Other scenarios that may occur, and that are indeterministic in nature, could be the power suddenly going off while your application is running, , some error occurring in the device, or the device getting unplugged. All the earlier cases can cause your application to crash or throw an unknown exception.

It is of paramount importance to track the device status while your sensor is used by the application. The KinectSensor object has a property named Status, which indicates the current state of the devices. The property type is of the KinectStatus enumeration.

The following table has listed the different status values with their descriptions:

Status

Description

Connected

This indicates that...