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July 9, 2019

Body Tracking with ARKit on iOS (iPhone/iPad)

Apple is officially the newest player in the Body-Tracking industry! With its new pose estimation capabilities, ARKit is a Kinect alternative for mobile devices. People occlusion and human pose estimation are now core parts of the latest ARKit 3 framework.…

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Microsoft Azure – HoloLens Mixed Reality concept

CodeProject Hololens Unity

February 24, 2019

Azure + HoloLens = Mixed Reality to the Cloud!

It's rumored that Microsoft will showcase the second version of HoloLens in the next few days. So, I thought about bringing some holograms to the all-favorite Cloud. This is Vangos from LightBuzz and today we are going to combine two…

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CodeProject Computer Vision

November 2, 2018

How to Build OpenCV for Windows with CUDA

Working in the field of Computer Vision for a decade, I have been using popular application frameworks to help me accomplish complex tasks, such as image processing, object tracking, face detection, and more. Two of these tools are OpenCV and…

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C#CodeProject Realsense

October 10, 2018

Intel RealSense D415/435: Coordinate Mapping in C#

During the past few months, I have been heavily experimenting with the Intel RealSense D415 & D435 depth camera. Today, I am going to show you how to easily transform between different coordinate systems. RealSense D415/435 is a low-cost device…

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Business

September 25, 2018

How to Hire Great Software Developers

TL;DR In this article, I will show you how to find and hire great software developers. I'll share my step-by-step hiring guide and will also give you access to the coding tests I'm conducting during the technical interviews. The Software Developer Paradox…

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CodeProject Kinect Motion Analysis Orbbec

April 30, 2018

Body Tracking using Orbbec Astra + Nuitrack (Kinect alternative)

After Microsoft announced the (not so sudden) death of Kinect, I have committed myself to providing viable alternatives for my customers and their businesses. My company has been developing motion-analysis applications for the past seven years, so I know first-hand…

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Kinect Uncategorized

April 12, 2018

Kinect Legacy SDK 1.8 & 2.0

As you know, Kinect has come to an end and the industry is transitioning to new depth sensors and new body-tracking SDKs. I have committed myself and my company to develop new frameworks for the Orbbec and Intel cameras. So,…

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Business CodeProject Kinect

October 25, 2017

Kinect is dead! Now what?

BREAKING NEWS! Microsoft has officially killed the Kinect. Today, Alex Kipman (creator of the Kinect) and Matthew Lapsen (XBOX Marketing) announced that Microsoft will stop manufacturing the Kinect sensor. Source: Co.Design Kinect devices will be available in stores until they run out…

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C#CodeProject Kinect

September 10, 2017

Floor Detection using Kinect

Kinect is primarily used in Body and Face tracking applications. Few people know, though, that Kinect is an amazing sensor for detecting the floor, too! The native Kinect SDK provides us with all the information we need to accurately recognize…

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C#CodeProject Kinect

May 28, 2017

Kinect Joint Rotation – The Definitive Guide

In one of my previous blog posts, I showed you how to measure joint angles using Kinect and C#. Today, we'll dive into a more complex topic: in this article, you are going to learn how to measure the orientation…

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