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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

About the Author

Abhijit Jana works at Microsoft as a .NET Consultant, as part of Microsoft Services Global Delivery, India. As a consultant, his job is to help customers design, develop, and deploy enterprise-level secure solutions using Microsoft Technology. Apart from being a former Microsoft MVP, he is a speaker and author as well as an avid technology evangelist. He has delivered sessions at prestigious Microsoft events such as TechEd, Web Camps, Azure Camps, Community Tech Days, Virtual Tech Days, DevDays, and developer conferences. He loves to work with different .NET communities and help them with different opportunities. He is a well-known author and has published many articles on different .NET community sites.

He shares his thoughts on his personal blog at http://abhijitjana.net. You can follow him on Twitter at @abhijitjana. Abhijit lives in Hyderabad, India, with his wife, Ananya and a beautiful little angel Nilova.

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Disclaimer

The opinions in this book are purely my personal opinions and do not reflect in any way the opinions of my employers.