This document summarizes the history and components of the Kinect motion sensing input device. It traces the origins and development of Kinect from 2005 with its introduction by Microsoft in 2009. It describes the hardware components of Kinect, including its camera, infrared sensors, and microphones. It also discusses the different versions of Kinect for Xbox and Windows and the Kinect software development kit (SDK). Finally, it outlines some applications of Kinect and its advantages and disadvantages.

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2. • Introduction
• History ofKinect
• Kinect Hardware
• Kinect Anatomy
• Type of Kinect
• Kinect Xbox v/s Kinect For Windows
• Kinect SDK
• Development using Kinect
• SDK Namespaces and Classes
• Applications
• Future of Kinect
• Advantage and Disadvantage of Kinect
• Conclusion
• References
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3. • Kinetic+Connect =Kinect
• Kinect -An electronic device, which follows the movement of the body
without contact .
Kinect device for Xbox One Game using Kinect device

4. • The technology behind Kinect was invented in 2005by Zeev Zalevsky,
Alexander Shpunt, Aviad Maizels, Javier Garcia and Alex Kipman
headed the kinect project for microsoft.
• Microsoft’sProject namedNatal(at E3,2009)
• Kinect launched for the Xbox 360 on 11/4/2010
• MSannouncedits official releaseof its SDKfor non-commercialuse(June 16,2011)
• Xbox360Limited Edition KinectStarWarsBundle(Before,all black)(July 21,2011)
• Releasedthe commercialversionof Kinect(February1,2012)

6. • MULTI – ARRAY MIC

7. • What Is Inside Kinect ?

8. • Kinect has FOUR microphones to retrieve spatial sound and attenuate noise.
• Kinect has small color camera with 640x480 resolution
• IR sensors.

9. •Kinect forWindows
•Kinect forXBOX

10. • Released in spring 2011
• Released for Win7 on June 16 in 12 countries
• Build applications with C++, C#, Visual Basic

11. • Version 1.5(May2012)
Include ‘KinectStudio’
Support for new “seated’ or “10-joint” skeletal system
Support for 4 new languages(French, Spanish, Italian,
Japanese) and dialects along withEnglish
Beavailable in other countries in June2012

12. • Version 1.6, 1.7,1.8
 First-generation sensor wasupdated
 Version1.6released(October 82012)
 Version 1.7released (March182013)
 Version 1.8 released (September172013)
• Version 2
 Second-generation Kinect(based on the samecore technology
asKinect for XboxOne)will be released in summer 2014

13. • Uses wide-angle time-of-flight camera(three times more
accuracy than its previous version using IR sensor)
• Processes 2GB/s to read its environment
• Provide voice commands(for navigation, starting games, waking from
sleep mode)

15. • Classes for each part of Hardware kit of Kinect
• Kinect SDK Beta v 1.0 released in June 2011
• Kinect SDK Beta v 2.0 released in October 2011
• Kinect SDK commercial version
• released in February 2012
Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0

16. • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with Kinect SDK
• NET Framework 4.0
• Knowledge of SDKAPI’s
• NET based language experience i.e. C#, VB.NET, VC++
• OpenNI v/s Kinect SDK

17. • NameSpace
- Microsoft.Kinect Namespace
• Classes
- Skeleton
- Joints
- ImageStream
- NUI AudioStream
- DepthStream

18. • Games and interactive playing(sports,dancing,arcade,action,strategy)
• Medical Sciences
( Health Care )
• Virtual Piano

19. • Kinect Studio
• Kinect in Home Automation
• Kinect In Education
• Support for new Languages

20. • In all, the Kinect is a very high advance piece of technology.
Aside from its gaming benefits, some of the Kinect's other key
features have made it useful to in the health industry.
Advantages:
 No Data Input Device Required
 Voice Recognition
 Facial Recognition
 Helpful in rehabilitation

21. Disadvantages:
 Has not researched full Potential
 Sensitive to external infrared source (sunlight).
 Easily Hacked

22. • This technique aims to provide an application that uses gestures to interact
with virtual objects in an Augmented Reality application.
• Technology is clearly one of the dominant features of modern world.
• there is total consensus that managing technology effectively is critically
important to the success and survival of individual companies and to
national economic well-being and growth.

23. • http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/hacked- kinect-science/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect
• http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/microsoft- kinect.html

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