Kinect development, using Kinect 1 and 2

6. Displays player on the screen
Used for still shots

12. Natal -> Kinect
First announced June 1, 2009 at E3
Hit NA on Nov 4, 2010
24+ million units sold (Guinness World Record)*
*fastest-selling consumer device." According to Guinness
World Records, Microsoft sold an average of 133,333 units
per day between November 4 and January 3.

13. Wait – how many?!

16. Kinect 2

19. Announced at BUILD 2014
Private beta going on right now
Open to all developers, ~summer 2014
Needs a hub and power supply to work
- 3 connections: sensor, USB3 output, and power

20. Building Apps with the Kinect for Windows SDK Session at TechEd2013: This
discusses the OpenCV library you asked me about and the Kinect Service Networking library
to allow for Kinect data via Windows Phone and Windows Store:
PowerPoint:
http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3a%2f%2fvideo.ch9.ms%2fsessi
ons%2fteched%2fna%2f2013%2fDEV-B305.pptx
Code:
http://video.ch9.ms/sessions/teched/na/2013/DEVB305_BuildingAppsWithKinect.zip
Video: http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/6983/b874ec7e-1eeb-4ae1-abb7-23f698816983/DEV-
B305.wmv
Kinect Service (connecting to Windows Phone, Windows 8) Documentation and
Project: http://kinectservice.codeplex.com/documentation
Kinect for Windows Dev Center: http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/kinectforwindowsdev/Start.aspx
Example ->Car Controlled via Kinect/Windows Phone:
http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Project-Detroit-An-Overview
Additional Resources

21. http://www.kinecthacks.com/kinect-sdk/
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindowsdev/default.aspx