Apress Hacking the Kinect 2012 eBook-repackb00k

Apress Hacking the Kinect 2012 eBook-repackb00k

Hacking the Kinect is the technogeek’s guide to developing software and
creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known
as the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft’s release of the Kinect in the fall
of 2010 startled the technology world by providing a low-cost sensor
that can detect and track body movement in three-dimensional space. The
Kinect set new records for the fastest-selling gadget of all time. It
has been adopted worldwide by hobbyists, robotics enthusiasts, artists,
and even some entrepreneurs hoping to build business around the technology.

What you’ll learn:

How to create a software environment and connect to the Kinect from your PC

How to create three-dimensional images from the Kinect data stream

How to recognize and work around hardware limitations

How to build computer interfaces in the style of “Minority Report”

How to interact directly with objects in the virtual world

The ins and outs of point clouds, voxel occupancy maps, depth images, and
other fundamentals of volumetric sensor technology

English | PDF | 268 Pages | 18 Mb