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Create rich experiences for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview with this pragmatic guide to the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). The author, a developer evangelist for Microsoft, walks you through Kinect sensor technology and the SDK—providing hands-on insights for how to add gesture and posture recognition to your apps. If you’re skilled in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation, you’ll learn how to integrate Kinect in your applications and begin writing UIs and controls that can handle Kinect interaction.

    This book introduces the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit to developers looking to enrich applications they build for Windows 7 and later with human motion tracking
    Teaches developers with core C# and WPF skills how to program gesture and posture recognition in Kinect
    Describes how to integrate 3D representation on top of a real scene
    Provides expert insights and code samples to get you up and running

David Catuhe

David Catuhe is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist who focuses on UI, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, DirectX, XNA, and Kinect. Based in France, David also writes a technical blog on MSDN.


By David Catuhe
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Released: September 2012
Pages: 226