Category Archives: Kinect SDK

Kinect Maths–Early Stages / Source Code

You will remember a month or two back, that I started working on a Kinect Game. The idea of the game was to use more active gestures to answer questions in Mathematics lessons. To use the game, students will calibrate … Continue reading

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Kinect Maths–Early Stages

In my last post, I talked about developing a Maths game which allowed you to record and use your own gestures for playing the game. The example I gave was that you could flap your arms around to select the … Continue reading

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Gesture Maths

I must say… I love having half-term! It’s given me more chance to catch up on all the things I want to do with Kinect! Here’s one of the next advances in the Kinect SDK. Dynamic Gestures! Forget static hand … Continue reading

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Bedruthan Steps – Saltash.net

I’m Back! Hi Guys, sorry that the blog has been a little neglected lately but I promise that there are some things in the works and I’m hoping to get moving soon! I have just moved into new accommodation and … Continue reading

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Whac-A-Mole for Kinect–Prime Number Edition

Through the Easter Holidays I decided that I would have some fun programming the Kinect SDK and I thought that I would try some new things out. I had a play around with random position of items and I thought … Continue reading

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Lesson 9–Speech Recognition Update

A lot of people have requested speech recognition updates for the new version of the SDK. I know from personal experience that this caused me a lot of trouble and I have been trying to find a simple way of … Continue reading

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Kinect Emulator–Version 2–Released! HAPPY EASTER!

So while I was in Lisbon, Stuart Ball and Gareth Ritter mentioned some features which I could include in the Kinect Emulator. They mentioned the use of PowerPoint Controls and also the use of the World Wide Telescope. I have … Continue reading

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Kinect Mix and Match

I have finally started to get on top of things and one of the things I realised was that I hadn’t made an application in a while. I thought I would put something out which was quite simple to use … Continue reading

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Kinect Water Cycle for Shout!!

If you were at the Microsoft Partners In Learning European Forum, you may have had the pleasure of listening to a brilliant presentation from Mandeep Atwal. Her dedication to the Shout Program is second to none. I had the pleasure … Continue reading

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Kinect Orchestra for V1 of SDK

On the 1st of February, Microsoft released the new version of the SDK. Since then, some of you may have noticed that some of the applications do not work. I have slowly been working through some of these applications so … Continue reading

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