Chapter 12. Taking Kinect Further
After completing this chapter, you will:
Discover how a program can adjust the sensor position
Understand how to track multiple skeletons using Kinect
Use the Kinect microphone to locate the source of a sound
See how Kinect can be used in robotics
Have some ideas about what to do next
Adjusting the Sensor Angle
THE KINECT SENSOR BASE CONTAINS a small electric motor that can be used to adjust the angle of the sensor. The sensor can be adjusted up and down to allow it to have the best possible view of the scene in front of it. A program can change the angle of the sensor by altering the ElevationAngle property of an active Kinect sensor.
myKinect.ElevationAngle += 10;
The preceding statement would tilt the sensor up by 10 ...
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