Programming with Microsoft Kinect

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iceman picture iceman · Nov 11, 2010 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

Does anyone know if an end user purchases the Kinect sensor, he can program using it to make own games. Or is the API only for professional game studios?

Answer

halfbit picture halfbit · Dec 14, 2010

Link to MSFT SDK

Update:

Just in from ZD.NET "Microsoft readies hobbyist Kinect development kit; promises commercial version later" link

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The makers/OEM of the Kinect is PrimeSense. They make both the kinect and an independent devkit. They recently released open source drivers that are compatible with both XBox's Kinect and the smaller DevKit. You might as well get the drivers straight from the source. I'm not sure what value a 3rd party library (openKinect) will offer.

Get the unified Kinect and DevKit drivers here: http://www.openni.org/ Windows and Unix support is available.

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