Getting PC Kinect to Recognize the Basics

Unlike the Xbox 360 Kinect, the PC version is not plug-and-play and it requires some coding to get started. Fortunately our team member Karen is capable of handling the coding requirements. She has a background in software development and has used C and C++, but never C#, so she borrowed some sample code to start out...

Kinect and PC Arrived

Our hardware arrived earlier this month so we all met up at the CDR to dig into it on March 4th. After we got everything hooked up we quickly noticed the computer wasn't really noticing the Kinect at all, it became clear to us right away that we needed to manipulate code in the Software Development Kit (SDK) to really get started. It was a productive start to our project, more info and images after the break.