Showing posts with label Kinect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kinect. Show all posts

Kinect for Windows SDK Beta is out!

There was a lot of rumoring going on and some hot previews of what Microsoft Kinect developers are producing with the new Kinect SDK for Windows.


Now Microsoft released the (noncommercial!) Kinect SDK for Windows Beta version.



It runs under Windows 7 and Microsoft has not commented on the compatibility for the upcoming Windows 8.

First steps with Kinect and Motionbuilder

I got a Kinect for my Birthday, yesterday I set it and made some research stuff in Openframeworks, Cinder and Processing. Since it was a bit of trouble finding out which drivers and libraries to use on Windows I had to fresh up my brain and tried the Kinect with Motionbuilder.

I used Jasper Brekelmans fantastic Brekel Kinect as device in Motionbuilder. Of course I had other drivers installed (Freenect) that I had to get rid off first, after that everything went very straightforward. Here a quick'n dirty video I made after a half hour of dancing and playing around: