Chapter 10. Developing Applications Using Multiple Kinects

Over the course of the last few chapters, you have gained enough knowledge in developing applications using Kinect for Windows SDK, and now the time is ripe to take the development process one step further by including multiple Kinects in our development domain. Applications can be developed for multiple Kinects using Kinect for Windows SDK. Kinect for Windows SDK supports as many as four Kinect sensors to plug into a single system. With the aid of multiple Kinects, we can make even more feature-rich and interactive applications, such as capturing data from a specific sensor, a failover application where one Kinect acts as a backup and starts automatically when the other one is down, building a security system that detects intrusion in different locations, 3D modeling of data and so on. This takes the app experience to a completely different level.

We need to keep a few things in mind before proceeding to developing applications using...