kinect

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Vladimir Kolesnikov, Microsoft employee and part of the This Week on Channel 9 host team has released a new wrapper that will make the Python Kinect 2 Dev's smile... :) PyKinect2 Enables writing Kinect applications, games, and experiences using Python. Inspired by the original Link Removed...

I cheating a little... Yesterday I highlighting this project in the Kinect Gallery, but since this news ties in so well with last week's blog post, I'm going to highlight here too. And can you really have enough Small Basic and Kinect news? :) Kinect for Small Basic System Requirements 1...

It's not often we get a new development environment that gets Kinect Dev support, so when we do, and when it's focused on getting to coding quickly, well we have to highlight it! Kinect for Small Basic 1, Download Small Basic 1.1 Link Removed 2. Download the Kinect for Small Basic installer...

If you've been following this blog for any length of time, you know how much I like the Kinect voice recognition and its potential. Every single time I use my Xbox One, it's just so natural to "Xbox Pause" or "Xbox Turn Off"... Zubair Ahmed has just shared a simple sample, but simple in that...

I look back on this past quarter and kind of say, "wow." So much has been released, there was so much news that even with this round-up, it's hard to grok it all. Then I try to imagine what the NEXT quarterly round-up, post BUILD/Ignite, will look like [Brain Explodes]... Coding4Fun Blog...

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... Link Removed In case you hadn't noticed, the Windows Store added something really...

While I don't usually highlight commercial products, this product and others from Brekel deserve an exception... Brekel Pro Face 2 For Kinect for Windows v2 & Kinect for Xbox One sensors Brekel Pro Face v2 is a Windows application that enables 3D animators to record and stream 3D face...