Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit

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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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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Kinect at a glance
  • Chapter 1: A bit of background
  • Chapter 2: Who's there?
• Integrate Kinect in your application
  • Chapter 3: Displaying Kinect data
  • Chapter 4: Recording and playing a Kinect session
• Postures and gestures
  • Chapter 5: Capturing the context
  • Chapter 6: Algorithmic gestures and postures
  • Chapter 7: Templated gestures and postures
  • Chapter 8: Using gestures and postures in an application
• Creating a user interface for Kinect
  • Chapter 9: You are the mouse!
  • Chapter 10: Controls for Kinect
  • Chapter 11: Creating augmented reality with Kinect
• About the Author

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