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Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit
- By David Catuhe
- Published Sep 15, 2012 by Microsoft Press. Part of the Developer Reference series.
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Description
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9"
- Edition: 1st
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-7356-6780-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-7356-6780-8
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
