Articles having tag: KINECT

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kinecting to your Anatomy with S.A.G.E.

By Greg Duncan

Today's inspirational project is one that you just have to see to believe. It shows how the Kinect, melded with a projector can make learning (and more) into something fairly amazing...Spatial Augmented Game EnvironmentThe Spatial Augmented Game Environment,...

"Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking"

By Greg Duncan

Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library)Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking (Kinect...

Kinect for Windows: Find user height accurately

By Vangos Pterneas

Some people ask me if there is a way to determine the height of a user standing in front of a Kinect device. The answer is defintely positive: We can detect the user's height regardless of her distance from the sensor! We only need some very\xa0basic Maths...