Articles having tag: CODING4FUN

Operating Kinect - The Kinect in the operating room

Today's projects highlight two inspirational stories about how the Kinect might be used to help surgeonsKinect imaging lets surgeons keep their focusTHE surgeon enters the operating theatre, covered in sterile blue scrubs. Machines beep and hiss. Nurses wait,...

[Special Edition] Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 now available

By Greg Duncan

Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 - Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & MoreRob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the...

Gestating your Metro Style App with Cocoon

By Greg Duncan

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF...

Got an Kinect App? Need a web site? Here's a template for you...

By Greg Duncan

So you've been working on your Kinect app or project, banging away night and day in Visual Studio and you're ready to show it off to the world. But now you need a web site too. It sure would be nice if there were some kind of Kinect App Web Site template available...Kinect...

A triple dose of the .NET Micro Framework. Netduino, .NET Gadgeteer and a FEZ Hydra Basic Kit

By Greg Duncan

Today's Hardware Friday is a triple dose of .NET Micro Framework and .NET Gadgeteer getting started, into, kicked off, hooked, what are they and getting started posts.From a slide deck and great link round-up my Pete Brown, to watching him geek out for an hour...

Connecting to Kinect over the wire via TUIO Skeleton

By Greg Duncan

[A couple paragraphs of intro/comments]TUIO SKELETONHow It WorksThanks to the features of the Tuio protocol, it has been implemented a client-server system for the transmission of the skeleton data kinect "real time". The results have been excellent...

Kin-Educate

By Greg Duncan

Today's inspirational project (with download coming soon) is a great example of how the Kinect continues to help drive innovation in learning.Kin-Educate: An educational game for the KinectKin-educate is part of a research project exploring innovative ways...

Welcome to the IGF, Indiefreaks Game Framework

By Greg Duncan

Today's project is a kind that I don't usually highlight, one that relies on a commercial third party SDK, but I really appreciated the author's intent and goals with it. I just can't get enough of people taking their hard learned lessons, packaging them...

Put down the measuring tape. Using the Kinect to find your height

By Greg Duncan

When I saw this, the first thing I thought was just how cool a thing an amusement park could build with this. Gone could be the days of the "You must be taller than this bar," instead replaced with an interactive, themed for the park, height measurement...

"Game Development with XNA and Microsoft Technologies: Kinect Development"

By Greg Duncan

Teaching resources have a special place in my heart and in seeing this course, 34 class rooms sessions, with all the lesson plans, resources, labs, etc for learning to develop with the Kinect, well, how could I not share it?Game Development with XNA and Microsoft...