Testing your device

Once the SDK installation is complete, you are ready to start the development. But let's start with a few bits of testing.

Testing Kinect sensors

The Developer Toolkit has a set of sample applications; you can choose any of them to test the device. To quickly check it out, you can run the Kinect Explorer application from the Developer Toolkit. The Kinect Explorer demonstrates the basic features of the Kinect for Windows SDK, which retrieves color, depth, and skeleton data and displays them on the UI. The next screenshot shows the UI reference of the application:

If you are also able to view a similar-looking output, where you can see the Kinect sensor returning the depth, color, and skeleton data, you can be sure that your device has been installed properly.

Testing the Kinect microphone array

You can use Kinect as a microphone. Navigate to the Sound section in Control Panel and select the Recording tab to see Kinect's Microphone Array. This is shown in the following screenshot...