Kinect 1.7 update now out

author Robert Hogg calendar Mar 18, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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Kinect for Windows has just had a update to version 1.7. The Kinect team are calling it "our most significant update to the SDK since we released the first version"

And they are right, it is just awesome , will be talking a lot about Kinect 1.7 over the next few months.

The new version includes

Kinect Fusion -   3D object scanning application  creates live 3D models

New recognisable gestures - push-to-press buttons, grip-to-pan

and new multiple users and two person interactions

along with Microsoft pushing a bunch of code samples to CodePlex in a move to deliver open source samples get them here

Get the SDK here

and the Developer toolkit is here remember you need both kits (install the SDK first)

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