kinect

Last week I introduced you to the Unity Kinect of Rumen Filkov (aka RF Solutions), Unity Asset - Kinect [v1] with MS-SDK. As I said, here's another of his Unity Assets, today focusing on the Kinect v2. Kinect v2 with MS-SDK Link Removed Kinect v2 with MS-SDK is a set of Kinect v2 examples...

Kinect MVP James Ashley is back with a great example of using OpenCV v3 (which we highlighted OpenCV turns 3 and seeing Intel(R) INDE OpenCV), Emgu and the Kinect v2 to implement computer vision/facial recognition. Some of our other posts where we highlight James; Kinect 2 Unity 5 "Kinect v2...

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...

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... Link Removed We are excited to share our Finger Tracking library Aiolos for Kinect v2 with you. At this time, Aiolos is still in an...

Friend of the Gallery and Kinect MVP Vangos Pterneas is back with a great and detailed post on developing with the HD Face API. Some of the other times we've highlighted Vangos Pterneas's work; Just face it... with these two Kinect for Windows v2 SDK Face Examples Kinetisense and Kinect app...

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...

Welcome back to Ping! We talk about more ways to use Cortana, some new games for Windows Phone, the world's very first 3d fabric printer, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about... Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Last Week... Link Removed...

Today is a quick post from the one and only Bruno Capuano... [#KINECTSDK] Error: Kinect Monitor (KinectMonitor) failed to start. Today is (again) a quick post. I hope this one is my last error fixing of the year 2014. Todays issue is related to the installation process of Kinect SDK V2. If...

This is a great title for a post from Dwight Goins that I've been meaning to highlight for a while... My Kinect told me I have Dark Olive Green Skin… Did you know the Kinect for windows v2 has the ability to determine your Skin pigmentation and your hair color? – Yes I’m telling you the...

Today inspirational project shows off another way the Kinect is being used in new, exciting and unanticipated ways... Computational Hydrographic Printing (SIGGRAPH 2015) Link Removed Link Removed Abstract: Hydrographic printing is a well-known technique in industry for transferring color...

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...

IllumiRoom (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/) demonstrated how projection mapping can enhance entertainment. RoomAlive (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/roomalive/) prototyped turning any room into an interactive, augmented experience. In this session, Andy...

We've mentioned IllumiRoom and RoomAlive before, but at Build 2015 there was a dedicated session AND the release of the RoomAlive Toolkit too! Link Removed IllumiRoom (Link Removed) demonstrated how projection mapping can enhance entertainment. RoomAlive (Link Removed) prototyped turning any...

Mike Taulty, long time Friend of the Kinect Gallery, has been writing up a great series of articles around Intel's RealSense camera and Visual Studio (of course ;). Here's the current series ToC (as of the time of writing this), where you can get a good feel of everything he's covering... Link...

Link Removed, David Giard and Bill Fink provide an inspirational session about a Kinect Photo Booth Link Removed Bill Fink shows off the Photo Booth application he built with a Microsoft Kinect. Link Removed Project Information URL: Link Removed Contact Information: Blog...

Link Removed, Friend of the Gallery, posted a short, but sweat Kinect C++ example; Here's some of the other posts from Peter we've highlighted recently; More on the openFrameworks and the Kinect Unity 5 and the Kinect... WebSocketing the Kinect Custom Kinect Gestures in Unity3D? Here's how...

Kinect and Unity, Peanut Butter and Chocolate (or you'd think so, given how often we cover them here... ;). Now Link Removed has put together something just a yummy with his Unity 5 and Kinect 2 tutorial... Unity 5 and Kinect 2 Integration Link Removed Until just this month one of the best...

1 Loading an object Link Removed Figure 1 - 3D Builder Start Screen 3D object can be loaded using 3 different methods. One can either pick a model from the 3D Builder Library, load them from an external file or create a new one from a Kinect v2 Sensor scan (see 3D Scanning). Loading...

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...

Tango Chen, Friend of the Galley, provides an amazing inspirational post... I don't think I've seen anything like this! Motion Server – One Kinect v2 on Multiple Devices One day I felt that using one Kinect on one PC isn’t enough. There could be more interesting things to do with multiple...