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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

Detecting multiple Kinects


The KinectSensor class has a static property of type KinectSensorCollection, named KinectSensors, which consists of the collection of sensors that are connected with the system. The KinectSensor class returns the collection of connected Kinect devices with your system. KinectSensorCollection is a read-only collection of type Kinect sensor. Each KinectSensorCollection contains an indexer of the KinectSensor object and an event named StatusChanged.

The following code block shows the definition of the KinectSensorCollection class:

public sealed class KinectSensorCollection : ReadOnlyCollection<KinectSensor>, IDisposable
{
        public KinectSensor this[string instanceId] { get; }
        public event EventHandler<StatusChangedEventArgs> StatusChanged;
        public void Dispose();
}

We need to get hold of the KinectSensor property most of the time to get access to the sensor information.

Getting access to the individual sensor

We can get the instance by...

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