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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

Summary


This chapter mainly works as an introductory chapter for building applications using multiple Kinects. Dealing with multiple Kinects is very easy, as it is doing nothing but taking care of individual Kinect sensors. But the first major hurdle we usually face is while configuring both the Kinects so that Windows can recognize both the devices correctly, and the devices work properly without interfering into each other's functioning. Some of the most common errors involved in setting up multiple Kinects to work with Windows have been highlighted and the method of troubleshooting has also been dealt with in fair detail. We have also demonstrated how the devices can work together without overlapping individual domains. We have developed a small application using multiple Kinects to track and notify the status change of individual sensors. We have also built a couple of demos that show the uses of multiple Kinects.