Download now Kinect for Windows SDK!

(links for everything listed can be found at the end of this blog post)

Kinect SDK Beta Launch Content

You can watch this now at http://channel9.msdn.com/live and once the event is complete within about 24 hours, it will move to a permanent home at http://channel9.msdn.com/events where you can download all the sessions and slides.

Coding4Fun’s Kinect Project Gallery

Coding4Fun Toolkit

A handy developer API for things like converting a byte[] array to a bitmap for Windows Forms and WPF or getting the distance of a particular pixel in one line of code. 

Kinect for Windows SDK VB Samples

All of the SDK samples have now been ported over to Visual Basic Express using today’s build (ShapeGame shown below)!

Kinect cursor

Brian Peek built an awesome Windows cursor that includes click and click/drag support (see me scrolling the KDK Web site with Kinect)

Kinect Paint

A fun, Metro-esque designed paint with your hands app (Drawing the word “cool” with a “caffeinated” apperance) from Evan Lang and Laurent Bugnion.

Jellybean

Clint’s awesome Kinect-enabled drivable Lounge chair!

Kinect for Windows SDK Quickstarts

Six short and sweet demo heavy videos showing how to use the Kinect for Windows SDK

Installing and using the Kinect Sensor

Setting up your Development Environment

Camera Fundamentals

Working with Depth Data

Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals

Audio Fundamentals

Full List of Content Links

Type	Item	URL
Video	Kinect Beta Launch Live Event	http://channel9.msdn.com/live
Video	Kinect Beta Launch On-Demand Sessions	http://channel9.msdn.com/events/kinect/betalaunch
Blog Post	Coding4Fun Kinect Project Gallery	http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/
Blog Post	Kinect Project Post – Welcome Post	http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Welcome-to-the-Kinect-for-Windows-SDK-Project-Blog
Blog Post	Kinect Project Post – Kinect SDK Beta Now Available	http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/The-waiting-is-finally-over-the-Kinect-for-Windows-SDK-Beta-is-now-available
Blog Post	Kinect Project Post – Light Saber project	http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Of-course-our-first-Kinect-for-Windows-SDK-Project-has-to-involve-a-Light-Saber
Sample	Kinect for Windows SDK VB Samples	http://files.ch9.ms/coding4fun/KinectSDKSamplesVB.zip
Sample	Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit	http://c4ftoolkit.codeplex.com
Sample	Mouse Cursor Sample Project	http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/projects/kinectcursor
Sample	Kinect Paint	http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/projects/kinectpaint/
Sample	Jellybean	http://jellybean.codeplex.com
Video	Quickstart Samples Download	http://files.ch9.ms/coding4fun/KinectForWindowsSDKQuickstarts.zip
Video	Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor	http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Understanding-Kinect-Hardware
Video	Kinect for Windows Quickstarts	http://channel9.msdn.com/series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/
Video	Setting up your Development Environment	http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Getting-Started
Video	Camera Fundamentals	http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Camera-Fundamentals
Video	Working with Depth Data	http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Working-with-Depth-Data
Video	Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals	http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Skeletal-Tracking-Fundamentals
Video	Audio Fundamentals	http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Audio-Fundamentals