[Core]

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Anyone else (who owns or plans to own a Kinect) but me excited about this?

[Shane Hudson]

I was planning on buying one (though have no xbox) till I found out Microsoft were against the use of it on PC. If this SDK turns out to be any good, I might well get one. I expect it will not be open source?

[bflosabre91]

im very pumped about this. ive been fooling with the hacks but im really looking forward to getting some official support. I doubt it will support vb AND c# but i guess this will give me a good reason to finally dig into c# more thoroughly.

[Core]

@Shane Microsoft has nothing against the use of Kinect on PC - in fact, if you search for Kinect hacks, most of them are actually made on a PC.

@bflosabre91 I would assume that initially it will be released for C++ only (the unamanged version) due to the massive amount of direct hardware interactions (same as other Windows SDK releases). But who knows.

[modi123_1]

Various .NET libraries
http://nkinect.codeplex.com/
https://github.com/O...ct/libfreenect/

An article on what you can do with c#
http://www.switchont...ial-hacking-101

The a good teet to suckle:
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Gallery

[bflosabre91]

heres a quote i found in an article that made me think it would be c# at the very least.

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Microsoft announced that a software development kit for the Kinect will be coming this spring. What's interesting, though is that the kit will be releasing to the public to "meet the needs of higher-level people who don't care how the camera works."

[Shane Hudson]

Core, on 22 February 2011 - 03:18 PM, said:

@Shane Microsoft has nothing against the use of Kinect on PC - in fact, if you search for Kinect hacks, most of them are actually made on a PC.

@bflosabre91 I would assume that initially it will be released for C++ only (the unamanged version) due to the massive amount of direct hardware interactions (same as other Windows SDK releases). But who knows.

Oh right... the day after that weekend where somebody made the first drivers, I saw loads of articles saying Microsoft was against it. Obviously did not read them properly (or they were fake).

Might have to see if I can pick one up cheap then

[Core]

It's all good as long as developers don't tamper with the hardware internals.

[Shane Hudson]

I wonder, do you think it would be possible to make a javascript wrapper for Kinect? Similar to jQTouch for iOS.

[Dogstopper]

Shane: I believe that has been done already:
http://www.masshight...-gold-rush.html

I think THAT is what MS was freaking about.

[Shane Hudson]

Dogstopper, on 22 February 2011 - 10:47 PM, said:

Shane: I believe that has been done already:
http://www.masshight...-gold-rush.html

I think THAT is what MS was freaking about.

Ooo thanks! I meant more of web apps using motion tracking rather than just navigation, but still a great step forward (albeit from November)

[bflosabre91]

so now it seems like the date for release is may 16th. they also announced c# and vb.net support, which is incredible. i'm really looking forward to this.

http://research.micr...ects/kinectsdk/

[Core]

Apparently that date is no longer accurate.

[MATTtheSEAHAWK]

I don't have a kinect but after I see the possibilities of this I might get one because it seems very interesting.

[TomJoad]

If it is released with support for C++ I will probably pick one up. So many awesome things could be done with it.