A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Preview for full details see this blog post. It’s also worth checking out the Microsoft Health…
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. This post is the first part of that learning which is taking…
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a tool designed to wrap web content and allow it to plug easily into native…
I have received a few questions recently about detecting Kinect custom gestures in Unity 3D and it seems that there are a few issues with getting this up and running. I have previously posted about Kinect Custom Gestures and also…
OpenFrameworks I am in the process of reviewing various frameworks for visualising my Kinect windows store apps because prototyping ideas Direct3D is a bit labour intensive. My attention has turned towards Openframeworks. This is the official description: openFrameworks is an…
Well, with the managed version working in c# (see Face Tracking Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Managed) it should be a breeze to convert the code to a native c++ windows store xaml app :). Converting an event-based c#/xaml app…
Since working on the virtual rail project I haven’t had much chance to carry out much in the way of Kinect programming. That all changes now since I ordered a Kinect 4 Windows v2 as I have been hacking away…
Hub App This will be a bit of a deep dive into the Semantic Zoom control and it’s usage in a windows c# / xaml universal app project. Starting with something which I’m sure everyone is familiar with, that is,…
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. So I downloaded it and started playing around with some code and it…
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors the Simple StreamSocket example in msdn here http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/StreamSocket-Sample-8c573931 which is coded in c++ and javascript but no c#.…