Kinect
This tool can record all the data coming into an application from a Kinect unit. To access Kinect Studio, I just go to All Programs/Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 and select Kinect Studio v1.5.1. I have the latest Developer Toolkit for Kinect for Windows (v1.5.1) installed on my development machine. Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 includes Kinect Studio, which is a very cool tool. What’s a developer to do? The only way to test a Kinect-enabled application is to stand in front of the Kinect, right? It’s not like I can build a coded UI test to simulate the Kinect’s data feed-or can I? In this article I’ll show you how you can save time and energy when testing your Kinect-enabled applications by using Kinect Studio.
KINECT CODE
But eventually you started to feel tired or lazy, not wanting to expend so much effort just to change a simple value in your code or add an element to the WPF that would result in about 30 seconds of down time between builds.
Sound familiar? If you’re like me, this process was perfectly OK with you the first dozen or so times you went through it, excitement providing the force to overcome the object at rest (thank you, Sir Isaac Newton). If you just started developing with Kinect, I bet I can predict how you initially added a new feature or experimented with another visual: You eagerly hit F5, jumped out of your seat, moved in front of your Kinect, motioned and gyrated to express what you wanted in your application, ran into a bug or observed something that wasn’t quite what you expected or wanted, sat back down, stopped the application and went back to coding. I hope that those of you who had been hesitating to get a Kinect for Windows and start building applications were encouraged not to wait any longer. In June I covered the basics of creating a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that uses Kinect for Windows to track a user’s skeleton and draw it on the screen.
Volume 27 Number 09 Kinect - Working with Kinect Studio