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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692380
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhijit Jana Abhijit Jana
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding the Kinect Device 2. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 3. Starting to Build Kinect Applications 4. Getting the Most out of Kinect Camera 5. The Depth Data – Making Things Happen 6. Human Skeleton Tracking 7. Using Kinect's Microphone Array 8. Speech Recognition 9. Building Gesture-controlled Applications 10. Developing Applications Using Multiple Kinects 11. Putting Things Together Index

Kinect Info Box – your first Kinect application


Let's start developing our first application. We will call this application Kinect Info Box. To start development, the first thing we are going to build is an application that reads the device information from a Kinect sensor. The Info Box application is self-explanatory. The following screenshot shows a running state of the application, which shows the basic device information such as Connection ID, Device ID, and Status. The Info Box also shows the currently active stream channel and the sensor angle. You can also start or stop the sensor using the buttons at the bottom of the window.

We will build this application in a step-by-step manner and explore the different APIs used along with the basic error-handling mechanisms that need to be taken care of while building a Kinect application.

Creating a new Visual Studio project

  1. Start a new instance of Visual Studio.

  2. Create a new project by navigating to File | New Project. This will open the New...

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