Kinect sample extended....now using SURF library.

Stay tuned ...

Kinect and Movement recognition in C#

Inspired from what's going on around Kinect the last few days on the web I wanted to have my own Kinect C# sample application, which recognizes movement.

Sitting back for a second, I was thinking about what's necessary to make Kinect recognize my moves:

1. The Kinect Windows driver: here.
2. A library which does some recognition on images: here.

Have a look at the outcome so far below:

Stay tuned as Kinect looks very promising and has unlimited potential!

Silverlight 3 from WinForm to RIA

The last weeks I was quite busy trying to move an existing WinForm application to Silverlight.

I would like to show you all the problems I had to solve, from the beginning to the end.

Today, I would like to explain the architecture to you, as this was one of the first problems on the long list.

The existing application talks to a TCP/IP server, listening on a special port. As Silverlight is not capable of talking to neither SQLServer nor a TCP/IP port directly I had to split the application to the Client part (Silverlight) and a WCF service, which talks to the TCP/IP server.

This means for all companies (which would like to use the web client) that they will need IIS, right?

Wrong, as I was using a WCF service the TCP/IP server can easily learn to respond to WCF requests, which I will show you in my next post.

Upcoming XNA Racing Game

Soon, very soon......