Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

( ISBN-10: 1849692386 ISBN-13: 978-1849692380  )

Quick Overview:

• Building application using Kinect for Windows SDK.
• Covers the Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6
• A practical step-by-step tutorial to make learning easy for a beginner.
• A detailed discussion of all the APIs involved and the explanations of their usage in detail
• Procedures for developing motion-sensing applications and also methods used to enable speech recognition

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the Kinect sensor in terms of a device, different components, and how they work.
• Step by step installation guide of SDK, troubleshooting tips and development environment setup.
• Reading the Kinect device information, monitoring and notifying the sensor status change.
• Automatically adjust the sensor elevation angle
• Understand different approaches of capturing data stream from Kinect sensor.
• Learn the uses of color, depth and IR data and how to leverage them in your applications.
• Use skeleton-tracking for interactive applications and leveraging the applications to gesture-enabled application
• Understand usages of Microphone array and build speech-enabled applications with Speech API
• Develop applications using Multiple Kinects

HoloLens Blueprints

(ISBN-10: 1787281949, ISBN-13: 978-1787281943)

What you will learn from this book

• Interact with holograms using different interaction models
• Develop your first holographic app
• Integrate holographic applications with cloud systems
• Visualize data feeds coming from the cloud through holograms
• Manage the application distribution of enterprise-enabled HoloLens
• Integrate HoloLens applications with services deployed on Azure
• Identify and create 3D Assets and Scenes
• Use HoloLens to explore the Internet of Things (IoT)