New beta2 version of Kinect SDK for windows just released.

Check new site for SDK - http://kinectforwindows.org

New in this release:

Faster and Improved Skeletal Tracking
With updates to the multi-core exemplar, Kinect for Windows is now 20% faster than it was in the last release. Also, the accuracy rate of skeletal tracking and joint recognition and been substantially improved.

Status Change Support
You can now plug and unplug your Kinect without losing work/productivity.

Improved Joint Tracking
Substantially improve the accuracy rate of joint recognition and tracking.

Testing my new GoPro 3D camera outdoors. First test looking very good.

Prototype of Kinect Fitting Room. Created in Processing. 16 Hi Poly dress models. Cloth physics coming soon.

With this SDK, you’ll be able to take advantage of:

• The latest advances in audio processing, which include a four-element microphone array with sophisticated acoustic noise and echo cancellation for crystal clear audio.
• Sound source localization for beamforming, which enables the determination of a sound’s spatial location, enhancing reliability when integrated with the Microsoft speech recognition API.
• Depth data, which provides the distance of an object from the Kinect camera, as well as the raw audio and image data, which together open up opportunities for creating richer natural user interface experiences.
• Highly performant and robust skeletal tracking capabilities for determining the body positions of one or two persons moving within the Kinect field of view.
• Documentation for the APIs and a description of the SDK architecture.
• Sample code that demonstrates how to use the functionality in the SDK.

This SDK is intended for non-commercial use to enable experimentation in the world of natural user interface experiences, with new state-of-the-art features planned for future releases that will continue to provide new ways to experiment.

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UPDATE: And looks like Microsoft Kinect SDK will be open source!!!

UPDATE2: False alarm. NO open-source.

Some key features include:

* Added the ability to load & save NITE skeleton calibration from files.
* Improved .NET Wrappers (with feedback from the community).
* Improved NITE algorithms.
* Auto-detection of sensor capabilities (such as resolution /compression / etc...) - No more hardcoded values (like X/Y res) in the XML files!
* Preliminary DirectShow interface for image & audio.
* Native 64-bit windows support.
* Proper multi-sensor support (with NiViewer integration as a sample)
* Support for ASUS WAVI/Xtion devices.
* Added a brand new Unity wrapper which is now an integral part of NITE.
* Switched Windows installer from NSIS to MSI/WIX (for proper upgrade / add & remove / UAC support etc...).
* Split installers to redist (runtime DLLs only - no includes/samples/etc...) and development versions.
* Many many many bug fixes & performance improvements!

I will add Kinect controls into it soon ) So you can touch copter in air and it will interact with you too ) Keep your fingers from it blades.

Thanx to Den Semenov for modeling )

Dmitry release small Augmented Reality Snow Scene for iPhone. Kinda fast and pretty. Christmas theme. Below some promocodes for it. Post in comments which one you get.

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