If you're a nerd (which I'm guessing you are, being here) you wouldn't have escaped the Xbox One announcement a couple of days ago. Brand new console, brand new controller and, of course, a brand new Kinect sensor.

Kinect 2.0 - What's Possible?

Heh, lots of exciting Kinect news coming out recently, and this one certainly took me by surprise and it's something that might just kickstart me back into Kinect development.

Kinect for Windows 1.7 Coming Monday

I’m no C# expert – in fact, before making Moto I had never touched it before – but I had the task of making a Kinect project which handled multiple players.

Managing Multiple Players with Kinect in C#

Over these past couple of weeks my final year project Moto has been on show for a few days in Bournemouth and London. It’s been an interesting experience and I’ve met some great people in some surprisingly different areas of expertise, but it’s really taught me a massive load about not just Kinect, but development in general.

Moto On Tour

I’m creating a Kinect experience called Moto at the moment (you’ve probably heard me banging on about it somewhere) where you get to play air instruments for realsies. There’s guitars and drum kits superimposed on the screen it’s magical:

Scaling instruments in Moto

Just another update to show where Moto is at the moment if you can’t play it where you are.

Moto Update #2

So. You’re new to the Kinect for Windows SDK, or you tried out the beta and are ready for the big time? Awesome. While I’d love to do a walkthrough video like I did for Beta 2 but since the update my screen recorder software doesn’t get on with the Kinect. Bummer. So text it is.

Introduction to the Kinect for Windows SDK (v1)

This may sound a little “…hang on, that’s old news!” but nope. February 1st signalled the release of the first official Kinect for Windows SDK sans its ‘beta’ tag. It’s the first official release of the SDK which is released alongside a Kinect designed for use with Windows itself.

Kinect for Windows SDK v1 is released!

Moto is my graduate project on my university course. It involves playing air instruments on the Kinect by mapping them to your body. But of course no band would be complete without at least one guitarist, so that’s what I’ll show you now.

Making a guitar for the Kinect SDK

Here’s another video I made, by request, on how to move the Kinect using code. Kind of like how it does it at the start of each Xbox game, but only manually. If I ever learn how it can judge where to look automatically, I’ll let you know.

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