Kinect News

Now that Microsoft has released their official SDK v1.0, get used to seeing more and more cool projects that take advantage of official kits for Microsoft. This latest one that I stumbled upon was developed in C# and allows the user to control media playback.

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Check out this cool app that uses the camera from an iPhone or iPad to chat with your friends in real-time 3D. You can create profiles and customize their appearance and seems to work great. The set up process is a bit much but once...

If you're a big fan of Kinect related robotics hacks, I'm sure you're gonna dig this one! The entire system was built using Processing and the...

Here's a cool little hack that Mert Akbal whipped together using the free for use gaming engine Unity along with the Unity Kinect wrapper.

It looks like some Kinect hacking may very well see itself embedded into the transit systems. I always envisioned people using natural gestures to bring up bus schedules or to even read the news as they wait for a subway or that next bus. Thanks to the open source...

This is one of the coolest interactive displays out there.  Using some low level coding and programming, the developers where able to sync up the Kinect's tracking data with a series of light bulbs that illuminate whenever a user is present.  The user can then...

The Evoluce SDK for Kinect and Windows 7 is now available and enables developers to create noncommercial applications with a natural...