Thursday, December 02, 2010

NKinect

Project Description
.NET 4.0 (C++/CLI) based open source implementation of Microsoft Kinect. Currently supports CodeLaboratories NUI SDK, but will be brought to OpenKinect/libfreenect when a Windows version is stable.

Current features

  • Accelerometer reading
  • Motor serial number property
  • Realtime image update
  • Realtime depth calculation
  • Export to PLY (On demand)
  • Control motor LED
  • Control Kinect tilt
Planned
  • Realtime point cloud image generation
  • Use 2+ Kinects to create stereo 3D (if the underlying library supports it)
  • TUIO interaction
  • Satellite "mouse" assemblies
  • Include OpenKinect/libfreenect transparent implementation

Read more: Codeplex