Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Microsoft Makes Kinect Code Open Source


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Microsoft have released 22 samples in C#, C++, and Visual Basic on how to interface directly with the Kinect hardware. Under the license, the code can be reused, amended, etc, for developers to produce their own applications that utilise the hardware.

Previously, developers wanting to use the Kinect hardware had to use an official software toolkit that hid the underlying code.