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...
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Friend of the Gallery, Abhijit Jana, recently posted a couple tips for those of you Kinect v2 Dev's moving to Windows 10.
Running Kinect for Windows applications on Windows 10 – Things you should verify
Running a Kinect v2 device and a Kinect for Windows application on Windows 10 is not...
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Today's commercial project shows off just how powerful the Kinect really can be...
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For the past year I’ve been developing an application called NextStage. NextStage turns the Kinect V2 into a realtime virtual production camera, by tracking retroreflective markers in a scene...
Friend of the Gallery and newly minted Microsoft Kinect MVP (Congrats!) Tango Chen is back with an extremely common request, using the Kinect to control a mouse (with source!)
Kinect v2 Mouse Control w/ Source Code
A mouse control application for Kinect v2, including a couple of options for...
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Today's library is one I've seen asked for a number of times on different forums and comments. Best of all, you can get it free and help them flesh it out...
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We are excited to share our Finger Tracking library Aiolos for Kinect v2 with you. At this time, Aiolos is still in an...
Today's commercial product was just recently announced and is something pretty new and interesting...
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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...
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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...
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Kinect MVP Carl Franklin has done it again. He's not only released his Link Removed, but he's also released the source for it too.
As you can see, Carl is a Friend of the Gallery;
GesturePak v2.0 Public Beta
GesturePak 2.0 Alpha for the Kinect for Windows v2
KinectTools v2 with BodyViewer...
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I've mentioned that with the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK you can now create Windows Store apps, Kinect to Windows Store App development. Recently the Kinect Team highlighted three real world examples of this...
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In case you hadn't noticed, the Windows Store added something really...
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I found today's project via Link Removed Link Removed and once I watched the video, there was no question about me highlighting it here as soon as possible... While Hololens might make this look like child's play, we don't have them yet and we DO have Kinect's... :)
Real life Portal; a...
Today's post isn't about Kinect coding or development, but it's pretty darn cool... Come on, what's cooler than using the Kinect to do 3D scanning and 3D printing...
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In this video, Alex Blondin and Gavin Gear demonstrate how you can plug a Kinect V2 sensor into your PC and turn...
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Mike Taulty, long time Coding4Fun Friend, recently presented at a London Kinect Hack Event on how to quickly get started developing with the Kinect for Windows v2. Lucky for us, he's shared it with us...;
Here are just a few times we've highlighted Mike's work;
Just face it... with these two...
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In this video, Alex Blondin and Gavin Gear demonstrate how you can plug a Kinect V2 sensor into your PC and turn it into a portable 3D scanning setup using the latest version of 3D Builder.
In this video a custom "turntable" was used so that the person being scanned us rotated smoothly, but you...
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Paul DeCarlo, Kinect4NES (Yes, Kinect to a Classic NES), is back and continues to push forward on his cool project, Kinect4NES...
Training Kinect4NES to Control Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!
In a previous post, I talked about how to create an interface to send controller commands to an NES based...
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Today's project is another one of those, if you need this, you really need it....
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For those interested, I have developed a library of Labview VI's to access data from the Kinect V2. It seemed that such a library was not available even though one was developed for the Kinect V1...
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Link Removed is back and continues to help us development Kinect for Windows v2 device applications without actually having a Kinect for Windows v2 device.
Here's a couple related posts...
Kinect without a Kinect
Two Kinect v2 Tips from El Bruno - Disconnected Dev and Body Counts)
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Kean Walmsley, long time Friend of the Gallery and AutoCAD .NET integration guy (if you need to use AutoCAD and .NET you've got to read his blog), who in his spare time, is also a Kinect enthusiast, recently released a four part series on the Kinect for Windows v2 Device, SDK and AutoCAD...
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Bruno Capuano, Friend of the Gallery, shows how fast the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK has been evolving, this time showing off the new Speech Recognition...
[#KINECTSDK] Speech recognition now available in SDK V2!
“This is preliminary software and/or hardware and APIs are preliminary and subject...
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Today Friend of the Gallery is back, today with a cool control you can use in your next Kinect for Windows WPF app.
Other recent Gallery Posts for Vangos Pterneas;
Understanding the Kinect Coordinate Mapping, with a little help from Vangos Pterneas
Looking at the Kinect for Windows v2
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