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Kinect Programming

with Direct3D 11

Jason Zink

2.1 Introduction

The Microsoft Kinect is a sensor peripheral originally released for use with the

Xbox 360 and later on the PC. The sensor includes a variety of different inputs,

including a microphone array, color image acquisition, and a special depth image-

acquisition system. With these diverse inputs, Microsoft has developed a number

of algorithms that can be used to sense and track the position, pose, and voice

status of one or more users—which can subsequently be used by a game or ap-

plication as input. This allows for a number of new ways for a user to interact

with their computers—instead of usin ...