The Kinect for XBox One Workshop

Introduction

This workshop presents the essentials of developing Windows applications using Microsoft's Kinect for XBox One sensor.

A step-by-step approach is taken, and sample code is included to illustrate the underlying programming concepts.

The material in this workshop has been extracted from multiple sources, and links to those sources are provided for reference and further study.

The following topics are presented:

• Introducing the Kinect for XBox One Sensor
• The Recommended Hardware Configuration
• Purchasing a Kinect for XBox One Sensor and Power Supply
• Downloading and Installing the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0
• Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
• The Kinect for XBox One Documentation
• Creating a Simple Kinect Application
• Displaying Body Skeletons
• Face Tracking
• Additional Topics to Explore