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February 20, 2014

Kinect for Windows version 2: Color, depth and infrared streams

A month ago, I was happy to receive a brand-new Kinect for Windows version 2 Developer Preview sensor. You can read my previous blog post about the capabilities of the new device. Kinect v2 now includes 5 main types of…

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Business CodeProject Kinect Videos

February 8, 2014

Kinect for Windows version 2: overview

NOTE: This is preliminary software and/or hardware and APIs are preliminary and subject to change. Well, I have been lucky enough since Microsoft selected me for early access to the new Kinect for Windows version 2 sensor. Today, I want…

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C#CodeProject Kinect

January 27, 2014

Implementing Kinect gestures

Gesture recognition is a fundamental element when developing Kinect-based applications (or any other Natural User Interfaces). Gestures are used for navigation, interaction or data input. The most common gesture examples include waving, sweeping, zooming, joining hands, and much more. Unfortunately,…

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C#HTML5 JavaScript Kinect

December 10, 2013

Kinect and HTML5 using WebSockets and Canvas

UPDATE (Dec 10, 2013): Want to learn more about WebSockets? Consider my new book, Getting started with HTML5 WebSocket Programming. Kinect defined Natural User Interaction. HTML5 redefined the Web. Currently, there are various tutorials describing how to interact with a Kinect…

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Kinect Presentations

December 6, 2013

Kinect & Leap Motion (presentation)

Date: December 7, 2013 Conference: ITPro|Dev Connections 2013 Kinect and Leap Motion are two state-of-the-art Natural User Interfaces. In this presentation, we learnt how we can build interactive applications that recognize body and finger gestures.

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Kinect Presentations

September 14, 2013

Kinect: Interacting with the future (presentation)

Date: September 6, 2013 Conference: Campus Party, London, UK Campus Party is one of the biggest tech conferences in Europe. It was an honor to be invited in such a greatly-organized event, presenting in front of a fabulous audience. The…

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C#Kinect

June 8, 2012

Kinect for Windows: Find user height accurately

UPDATE (Dec 26, 2013): The following techniques are part of Vitruvius, one of the most powerful Kinect utilities out there. Vitruvius is open-source and free for personal or commercial purposes. Some people ask me if there is a way to…

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C#Kinect

January 20, 2011

How-to: Successfully Install Kinect on Windows (OpenNI and NITE)

UPDATE (Dec 10, 2012): The following article was originally published on January 20, 2011. As a result, it might not be accurate nowadays. I strongly insist on downloading the official Kinect for Windows SDK instead. Playing Kinect games is a…

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