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Kinecting to the Enterprise (No, not that Enterprise)!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Kinecting-to-the-Enterprise-No-not-that-Enterprise “Today is a two for one day. Same presentation, same author, same basic topic, but for two different audiences, resulting in two different information experiences… (Think one is slide heaver and one is very code heavy and anti-slide)Rocking the … Continue reading

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Entering the HIVE (Highly-portable Immersive Virtual Environment) with NASA!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Entering-the-HIVE-Highly-portable-Immersive-Virtual-Environment-with-NASA “Today’s another inspiration video show off how the NASA Langley Research Center is using the Kinect to create the HIVE… I find it pretty awesome just how broad and varied the scenarios where the Kinect for Windows sensor and … Continue reading

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Dallas Developers Do Demos (with Kinect!

http://usergroup.tv/videos/dallas-kinect-for-developers-demos “Today’s inspirational 16 minute video is a overview of what 50 developers created in a 8 hour Kinect hack-a-thon. There are a number of interesting projects demo’d in this video. I think my favorite is the dog demo, but … Continue reading

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Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone… TouchDevelop!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Develop-for-Windows-Phone-with-Windows-Phone-TouchDevelop “Today’s Mobile Monday post shows off a project that’s kind of meta, programming for the phone, on the phone… Think you need a PC to develop for Windows Phone? Think it would be cool to take your development environment … Continue reading

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AutoCAD and the Kinect!

http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/AutoCAD-and-the-Kinect “Kinect and AutoCAD? Yes, you sure can… Note: These samples are currently based on the Kinect for Windows Beta 2 SDK and while since the v1 release I’ve tried to avoid Beta 2 projects, there’s been some requests for … Continue reading

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Microsoft releases Robotics Developer Studio 4 with Kinect support!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WinRumors/~3/bSSOyOHhJbs/microsoft-robotics-developer-studio-4-released-kinect-support “Microsoft’s Robotics Developer Studio 4, a freely downloadable framework for robot programming and management, has been released today. The new software will add support for Microsoft’s .NET Framework 4.0, XNA 4.0, and Silverlight 4.0. Most excitingly, will also include … Continue reading

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Student project aims to teach different cultures using Kinect and Windows Phone

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/ty_RVoY8FA4/ “Ro Ramtohul’s student project is to increase UK citizen’s familiarity with other cultures using a bit of technology. In his project demonstrated above users would be incentivised to learn a new culturally relevant gesture every day, e.g. bowing in … Continue reading

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Microsoft donates its ‘Mayhem’ open-source scripting application to Outercurve Foundation!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-donates-its-mayhem-open-source-scripting-application-to-outercurve-foundation/12142 “The Microsoft Research-developed Mayhem scripting technology is the latest open-source app the Redmond company is donating to the Outercurve Foundation.”

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Metro Studio

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wmexperts/~3/UWW6kNUQWew/story01.htm “Every so often we cover tools that help out developers, but this is in another league. A company called SyncFusion has created a product called Metro Studio 1 which looks to be invaluable to developers and designers alike. The … Continue reading

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Microsoft Shows Off Interactive Wearable Multitouch Projector!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/Wkfhip3trhk/ “Microsoft Research is continuing its efforts into Natural User Interaction space. The latest project they demoed is a Interactive Wearable Multi-touch Projector. The project is in its early stage, but you can see the potential from the video above. … Continue reading

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