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Programming with the Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit
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Programming with the Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit

by David Catuhe
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 50m
English
Microsoft Press

Overview

Create rich experiences for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview with this pragmatic guide to the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). The author, a developer evangelist for Microsoft, walks you through Kinect sensor technology and the SDK—providing hands-on insights for how to add gesture and posture recognition to your apps. If you’re skilled in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation, you’ll learn how to integrate Kinect in your applications and begin writing Uis and controls that can handle Kinect interaction.

  • This book introduces the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit to developers looking to enrich applications they build for Windows 7 and later with human motion tracking

  • Teaches developers with core C# and WPF skills how to program gesture and posture recognition in Kinect

  • Describes how to integrate 3D representation on top of a real scene

  • Provides expert insights and code samples to get you up and running

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