Remix the music with Kinect
This spring, visitors to Seattle radio station KEXP’s new home are being treated to the ultimate air-guitar experience: as they pass through a 4,000-square-foot art installation, their movements alter...
View ArticleKinect and UWP: new options in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
UWP apps today cannot access most of the data from a Kinect sensor. This post provides an overview of what we plan to deliver in the near future to begin bringing Kinect for Windows into the Universal...
View ArticleGetting your kicks with Kinect for Windows
A wall, a ball, and a kid: think about it. When you were a youngster on a playground, and a wall and a ball were at hand, what would you do? If you were like most kids, you’d kick or throw that ball...
View ArticlePumping iron with Kinect for Windows
No, you aren’t going to clean and jerk the Kinect sensor—and given its compact size, that wouldn’t be much of an exercise anyway. What you can do, with the tutorial provided by Vangos Pterneas (a...
View ArticleKinect-enabled VR holds productivity promise
Ah, the old office directory: page after page, or screen after screen, of names and job titles. Wouldn’t it be great to have a virtual directory that displayed employees’ faces, included the company...
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Bringing quality education to the countryside
Providing top-notch schooling in rural communities is a problem around the world—and one that China, a country with more than 600 million rural residents, is committed to tackling. A big part of this...
View ArticleVNTANA HOLLAGRAM brings AR to Marketing
You’ve built the world’s only interactive, scalable hologram system—so, what do you do for an encore? If you’re augmented reality (AR) company VNTANA, you link that hologram system to social media and...
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Keeping an eye on pugnacious pigs
Notwithstanding their docile image in cartoons and literature (think Porky Pig from the Looney Tunes cartoons or Wilbur in the novel Charlotte’s Web), pigs can be surprisingly aggressive, as any hog...
View ArticleIs your job a pain in the neck? Kinect might help.
Do you sometimes have a stiff, aching neck after a day of staring at your computer? If so, you’re far from alone. According to an article published in The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic...
View ArticleKinect for Windows news gets new address, keeps same great community
For the past several years, this blog has brought you news about the latest Kinect for Windows technology and its innovative applications in medicine, education, manufacturing, retailing, performance...
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