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A few weeks ago we highlighted a new Kinect video on Channel 9, Hello Channel 9 and Hello Kinect. Since then we've had not only one but two new videos added by another Niner! Link Removed In case you're curious about how to implement gesture control in your Unity game, you can easily follow...

In our second Link Removed theme week post, Link Removed and Link RemovedLink Removed spend 6+ hours teaching you have to create 3D Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform games with Unit 5... Link Removed Are you looking to build 3D games with Unity 5 for the Windows 10 Universal Windows...

Today, Link Removedwhich includes support for Windows 10 and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). With UWP support in Unity 5.2, developers can build a single game for Windows 10 that targets multiple devices ranging from phones to tablets to PCs to Xbox. This means that multiple screen sizes...

One of our most prolific Kinect Developers and Kinect MVP, Friend of the Gallery Tango Chen (Jingzhou Chen) is back with another take on Minecrafting with the Kinect Minecraft in Real Life using Kinect v2 Hey guys, I just developed this Kinect v2 application a few days ago. It lets you be...

There are many ways to spin a cube and in today's episode we're coming from a different... angle =P. Cooper Partin from the Windows Graphics team is joining to tell us about his work on the ANGLE project to enable OpenGL ES 2.0 support in Windows Store, Phone and Universal Windows apps. ANGLE is...

One of the new libraries I've not blogged about enough (cough... at all... cough) is one that will help the C++ or C# dev create GPU accelerated 2D Windows Runtime apps on Windows 8.1/WinPhone 8.1 and Windows 10. Why haven't I blogged about it? Well, I hate the author... JUST KIDDING. No, I've...

20 select videos from last week... Link Removed This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Giorgio Sardo discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed @gisardo ... Link Removed This is the first in a somewhat experimental series called Brain Dump on Node.js with...

Except Microsoft advertising SDK, from which ad networks could I get ads SDK? I want to add in-app advertising in my Windows 8.1 games. Could anyone give me some advice? Thanks.

The Unreal 4 engine showing how true to life graphics are getting:

June is the quite before the storm month. With Windows 10 and related items coming out next month, well July and August are going to be exciting months! Coding4Fun Blog Small Basic Gets a Not So Small Update... v1.1 Intel Galileo V2 and You Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 Retargeting Extension...

This week has already been a great one for PC gamers. One of the highlights was the very first PC Gaming Show, in which the community was able to celebrate with some of the biggest names in PC gaming and see the innovations that lie ahead. As one of the sponsors of the event, Xbox was on hand to...

Last week I was a little taken to task for not covering the many Kinect assets in the Unity Asset Store. Sure I've blogged about a few, but I'd never actually searched the Store for Kinect assets. I know, "Bad Greg..." Link Removed I have to thank Rumen Filkov (aka RF Solutions) for pointing...

With Microsoft’s latest open source code contribution to the Cocos2d-x project [https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/pull/12107], Microsoft has enabled Cocos2d-x to run on Windows 10 on the Universal Windows Platform. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) makes it possible to target all Windows...

Even through there are 17 shows in this week's look back, it was a quite week. This week the Channel 9 Studio is closed for a summer break, so it might be a slow week... We'll see... Link Removed In this video Tomas takes time out of his busy schedule to explain 4 big reasons for using F# when...

Today's commercial product was just recently announced and is something pretty new and interesting... Link Removed We're proud to announce the release of our first product that is now also available at the Unity Asset Store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/35136 We use the...

The game many of us have been waiting for............ Ref: http://bethsoft.com/en-gb/news http://fallout.bethsoft.com/

I've received a number of emails and comments about Unity, mostly "How do I get started..." For those looking to get started, today is your day! Vahe Karamian recently published a great 10+1 series of posts on learning Unity 3D. UNITY 3D - Game Programming Introduction Introduction It has...

Level Up is a show devoted to game development. Each show will recap current news and events in gaming, deep dive with a game industry insider, and cover tips for programming or finding resources to help you with game construction. We would love to hear from you with feedback or suggestions for...

Today is a play and learn day. Last month at Build 2015, Microsoft Edge was introduced using a new web app/game that reimagined the age old Flight Simulator in a web world. Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed What's great is that not only can you play the game, but you can learn how it...

Link Removed, Friend of the Gallery, posted another great example of using the Kinect v2, this time using it and its capabilities to start an Avatar journey... Here's some of the other posts from Peter we've highlighted recently; Kinect 2, Sound Detection with C++ More on the openFrameworks...