I just wrote a post on implementing a bounding box in Kinect-based apps to limit where a user has control: Imagine a scenario where your Kinect-based application is running in an area where there is a lot of "noisy" user traffic in the background. It could be in a lobby,...
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Using the Kinect runtime in a WPF MVVM app
I just wrote a post about incorporating the Kinect SDK in a WPF Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) application: Now that the official Kinect SDK is out I've been looking for good patterns when incorporating it into Windows 7 applications. The Model-View-ViewModel (e.g. MVVM) pattern is my pattern of choice for WPF applications...
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WPF 3D Camera Manipulation with Kinect
Just blogged over at kindohm.com: "I've created an implementation of a Kinect NUI Trackball which can be used for manipulating a camera around WPF 3D scenes. This "HandsTrackball" is adapted from the Trackball class included in the source code for WPF 3DTools. The original Trackball class allows you to use the...
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Texture Coordinates and Visuals on 3D surfaces
One of the capabilities that WPF provides is the ability to render 2D visual elements on 3D surface. For example, you can place panels, text blocks, images, or even videos on the surface of a thin box or “screen” (think video carousel), or even on a sphere or cylinder if...
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Quickly send files to Notepad
If you’re a developer, you probably open up a lot of files in Notepad (or Notepad2, or your favorite text editor). There are a lot of files in Windows that aren’t normally associated with Notepad though, so you sometimes have to go through the process of associating the extension with...
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