Today is one of the most exciting days of the year. Kinect for Windows has publicly announced the availability of its second version beta SDK. Here are the top changes from the first (1.8) SDK version:
- Better camera resolution
- More joints
- HD Face & facial expressions
- Hand states
- Improved accuracy
- Windows Store app support
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And one more thing…
Moreover, I am happy to announce that Microsoft awarded me as a Kinect for Windows Most Valuable Professional.
This is one of the greatest honors in my life (and a 2-year dream actually). I would like to thank Joshua Blake for the nomination and Microsoft corporation for their trust on me. This prize is both a reward for my contributions to the open-source community and a promise for more and more cool stuff to come.
So, stay tuned for more Kinect books and blog posts.
Thank you!
Woot! Congrats! Now write more stuff that I can highlight on the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery (http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect) LOL 🙂
Of course I’ll do 🙂
Thank you for featuring so many Kinect articles of mine.
How do the new joints effect measuring the height of a person’s skeleton?
I assume some adjustments need to be made.
Hi Eric. You can measure a person’s height using the body joints. There is a very basic algorithm here: https://github.com/LightBuzz/Vitruvius/blob/master/Kinect%20v2/NET45/LightBuzz.Vitruvius/Extensions/BodyExtensions.cs#L55
Hi,
I am new to Kinect . If I install the Kinect on the ceiling looking down, Is it possible write a program to detect a person? Thanks
Hi Johan. You can run the BodyBasics examlpe from the SDK Browser (installed with the SDK you downloaded) and find out how accurate the measurement from the ceiling is. Let me know about your results!
Hi..Vangos.
I don’t use KinectStatus property in V2. same as more property not available In Kinect 2.0 Version so any other option some .?
How can i use Kinectstus property use.
Hi Achal. There is no KinectStatus property attacked to the KinectSensor class in v2. There is a better mechanism: whenever you need to check the availability of the device, simply call the IsAvailable property. It’s just a boolean flag, indicating whether everything is fine with the sensor. Kinect notifies you about any state changes by firing the IsAvailableChanged event. Both the IsAvailable property and the IsAvailableChanged event are members of the KinectSensor class.
Hi Vangos,
when i was running kinect studio from the sdk browser v2.0( kinect for windows ) kinect suddenly started giving some sound what might be the problem ?
i not got it why it sounded, is there any sound alarm in v2.0 ? do youo something about this is there any requirement for kinect studio
thanks
Hi. Kinect normally makes no sounds. Probably a hardware issue.
Hi Vangos,
thanks for your feedback after that sound also its working fine no issue, i was running with all recommended hardware.
are you saying its kinect issue or laptop machine issue if something went wrong it’s not support to work only but all functions are working fine i don’t know what’s issue any guess ?
Hi vinayak. My guess it’s probably a device issue. We can’t know for sure, unless you check with a second device. You can also check if there is any significant over-heating while in use.