Microsoft confusion

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Published on: March 28, 2012

Alright.  Where do I go from here?  I think I am going to be waiting on MS to figure out what they are doing before I can decide how to proceed with my Kinect development.  WPF, Silverlight, and other technologies seem up in the air now at Microsoft with their [...]

WPF – XNA – WinForms – XAML – Silverlight – HTML5

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Published on: December 19, 2011

First, a simple statement that just never registered in my mind:   The KinectSDK for Windows is for building windows applications and not games.   This limits which Microsoft technology to use: WPF – Windows Presentation Framework – event-driven architecture that responds to user action by firing events.  Has access to [...]

Kinect Home Install/Testing

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Published on: December 13, 2011

Psst.  Do you have a Kinect and an XBox360?  Would you like to help me research utilizing the Kinect device as a limited home medical assistant? I’m a developer looking to turn this wonderful technology from Microsoft into something more than just gaming.  I want to use it as a [...]

Kinect Developer Notes – Readme

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Published on: December 9, 2011

Please note section 7.4, Virtual Machines, and save yourself sometime.  I installed Windows 7 Ultimate as a Boot Camp partition on my MacBookPro and…Bazinga!

Creating a default Kinect Project

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Published on: December 6, 2011

I walked through the tutorial from Channel9 on how to create my first Kinect project.  There is one additional download that is necessary.  I believe this is just a helper API project from Kinect4Fun to hide some of the lower level aspects of development with the Kinect device.  Anyway, the [...]

Kinect workspace setup

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Published on: December 5, 2011

To get going with Kinect development, I need to set up my development environment.  Luckily, Microsoft has made this fairly straight forward with their Kinect web site found here. Before getting started, you will require a power adapter to run the Kinect device: Original Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect AC Power [...]

Kinect development

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Published on: December 1, 2011

Today I applied for a job at Microsoft and I’m crazy excited about the possibilities.  I’ve finally found a platform that I am passionate about.  Not only that, I have some great crazy ideas for how to use the Kinect device in many differing industries.   Post-aneurysm training – a [...]

Kinect

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Published on: November 29, 2011

Today I am exploring how to get the XBox360 Kinect device to be recognized by my OSX and Windows 7 computer (dual boot).  I’ve located resources of developers who have made this work; now to narrow down these resources to those that are accurate, readable, and current.

Release

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Published on: November 25, 2011

Duncan Mountain LLC v2 is now released.  I learned a lot in version 1 and version 2 is going to be phenomenal!

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