Thursday, March 8, 2012

Quick Start for Kinect: Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor

The original link is here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Installing-and-Using-the-Kinect-Sensor




As Kinect developer, I had used openNI and Kinect for Windows. In the step of installation, Kinect for Windows is much easier than openNI. You just need to prepare a Win7 OS and Visual Studio 2010 then click the installer. You can have a tea for seconds and everything will be OK. If you did not have them and you would not like to install win7 and vs2010 forever, you can find how to install openNI! Complex steps!

Ok, about this video, it covers the basics of installing and using the Kinect sensor using v1 of the


1. An overview of the Kinect for Windows Quickstart Series
2. An overview of what sensors and information you can use with the Kinect hardware
3. Demos: We’ll show what gets installed on your PC when you install the Kinect SDK and how you can use your Kinect as a microphone using Windows Sound Recorder.
4. (Important)If you have an Xbox 360 Kinect with no dedicated power plug or USB cord, you can order a Microsoft Xbox 360 Power Supply cable from sites like Amazon.







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