www.kinectingforwindows.com

1. The power of
Kinect in 10
minutes

2. Who am I?
My name is Tom Kerkhove
 Owner of Kinecting for Windows
 Student New Media & Communication Technology at Howest
 Microsoft Student Partner for Kinect for Windows & Windows
Azure

3. The Kinect Effect

4. The Kinect Effect

5. What’s in the sensor?

6. Color Sensor

7. IR Emitter
IR Depth Sensor

9. Microphone array

10. Tilt motor

12. Sensor output

13. Depth
• Ability to get distance of pixel based on the sensor & gives
player index
• Default or near mode

14. Skeleton Tracking

15. Skeleton Tracking
• Two trackingmodes :
 Default
 Seated
• Positions are in three dimensional
world based on the sensor.
(values are in meters)

16. Speech
• Tracks loudest audio input
• Automatic ambient noise filter
• Can track position by noise

17. Face Tracking
• Released since SDK 1.5
• 87 tracked points
• Not unique per user

18. Kinect Fusion (vNext)

19. What’s the difference?

20. Kinect for Windows vs Kinect for
Xbox360
- Additional features like Near-mode,
Features Seated-mode, shorter USB-cable, - Basic features
extended camera, etc.
- $200 - $250 - $100 - $150
Pricing
- Free SDK - Free SDK
- For development & xbox use
Licensing - For development & public use
- Not for public use

21. Sensor output

22. Getting Started!

23. Getting Started!
Libraries
 Official K4W SDK for C#, C++ & VB.net
 AIRKinect as a ActionScript 3-wrapper
 Kinect for Processing Library or Jnect for Eclipse
as a Java-wrapper
 KinectJS as a Javascript-wrapper

24. Getting Started!
Human Interface Guidelines
 UX guidelines for creating applications
that are user-friendly
 Learn how to get all the power out of the sensor
 Developers need to read this as well

25. Getting Started!
Kinect for Windows official
 Official SDK updates & change logs
 Kinect for Windows news
 Stay up-to-date
Channel 9’s Coding4Fun
 Features Kinect projects/blog posts/libraries from the community

26. Getting Started!
Start Here! Learn the Kinect API
 Looks at the hardware in more depth
 Fundamentals on the Kinect API
 Good look-up if you’re new to the SDK or
want to refresh your memory
 Covers SDK 1.5

27. Getting Started!
Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software
Development Kit
 Takes Kinect API to the next level
 Gestures & Postures
 3D representations of the scene
 Expert insights

28. Getting Started!
Kinecting for Windows
 News on Kinect for Windows
 SDK Updates
 Cool projects
 Libraries
 Tutorials
 Videos

29. Thank you