Kinect for Windows SDK from Microsoft Research. Introducing OpenNI. HOWTO: Kinect + OpenNI/NITE skeleton tracking and gesture recognition in gentoo. Thanks to the folks at PrimeSense libraries are now available for skeleton tracking and gesture recognition.
UPDATE: Check here if you've gotten NITE working and want to try using the kinect as a Minority Report style mouse.UPDATE:I've added a description of how to track multiple hands under the Sample-PointViewer description. Here's how I got things working in gentoo: (15)Repeat step 14 for Sample-Scene.xml and Sample-Tracking.xml(16)Open Sample-User.xml and replace the existing MapOutputMode line with the line below.
NOTE: this is case sensitive! How-to: Successfully Install Kinect on Windows (OpenNI and NITE) UPDATE: For more Kinect blog posts, consider visiting my new website pterneas.com.
The website will always be up-to-date with the latest SDKs and sensors. Playing Kinect games is a really great experience. Programming for Kinect is even greater! Browsing the web, you can find many cool "hacks" (CLNUI, OpenKinect) which allow Kinect be used by a PC rather than an XBOX. Via these hacks, we gain access to Kinect's cameras (color and depth), LED, accelerometer and motor.