Windows Kinect SDK Nears

[Apr 14, 2011, 10:29 am ET] - 5 Comments

Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb tweets about the launch of the Kinect for Windows SDK Website, which says the Windows SDK for the motion controller is coming later this spring (thanks VG247). This press release has further details on what the SDK will include:

Robust Skeletal Tracking for high-performance capabilities that track the skeleton image of one or two persons moving within the Kinect field of view
Advanced Audio Capabilities, including four-element microphone array with sophisticated acoustic noise and echo cancellation for great audio; beam formation to identify the current sound source and integration with the Windows speech recognition API also included
XYZ depth camera for standard color camera stream access and depth data that indicates the distance of the object from the Kinect camera