Bing search blog this is a place devoted to giving you. Speech api to recognize speech as input for a new windows 8. This is the thirteenth lab in the series, and it teaches you how to use the kinect 2 and the bing. Kinect is a line of motion sensing input devices produced by microsoft and first released in. Map multiple locations, get transitwalkingdriving directions, view live traffic conditions, plan trips, view satellite, aerial and street side imagery. Unfortunately, kinect and the web arent exactly ideal partners. Bing maps controlled with kinect 3dsensing technology. She is currently a emerging experiences microsoft most valuable professional mvp and has previously been awarded mvp status for kinect, bing maps and live services and is a regular presenter at local and international user groups and events such as. The paper introduces the microsoft kinect device, briefly describing how it works the underlying. They also used custom bing mapspowered gis geographic information system and data visualisation applications to showcase their motion frameworks ability to work with multimodal input from motion sensing such as microsoft kinect, multitouch, speech recognition, stylus, and mouse devices. For more details please visit the azure kinect website.
Think about it, if you watched the movie minority report but not the philip k. Using the sdk requires acceptance of software license agreement available in the product manual. Installing and using the kinect sensor kinect windows sdk. The msdn library site offers development tools and languages for sharepoint, kinect, lumia, microsoft robotics, and windows sdk. Kinect for windows kinect for windows product blog. Shortly after the kinect sdk first launched, it spawned a number of. Bing maps, sql database update, kinect in the movies, coding marathon. Getting started with kinect for windows jeremy lindsay. Kinect for windows kinect for windows news gets new address, keeps same great community for the past several years, this blog has brought you news about the latest kinect for windows technology and its innovative applications in medicine, education, manufacturing, retailing, performance art, and more. Manufacturing of the kinect for windows has been discontinued. Microsoft research brings midair multitouch to kinect video. Watch just the first demonstration and you can see the system painting a 3d model of the room as quickly as the researcher can move the kinect around. All gesture are continuous and detectedrecognized according to the hand state and position of a user.
Windows phone 7 location services gpsmaps quickapp using silverlight for windows. From the download location, doubleclick on kinectsdkv1. We are excited to provide you with a rich spatial canvas to visualize content, create dynamic mashups and bring maps alive through new technologies and applications to help people complete. Kinect controller for bing map using wpf with mvvm design pattern. I also display outlines of the tracked hands to provide better feedback about what is going on. King is a bing map navigator based on microsoft kinect controller. The bing speech api is a cloud based speech recognition solution. Microsoft adds kinect gesture support for windows 8. Firstly kinectv2 is used for gesture and voice recognition.
This single installer works for both 32bit and 64bit windows. Kinect for windows is all about enabling windows pcs to take advantage of kinect. Its another week of headlines and laugher as paul and laura deliver you all the news that microsoft is buzzing about. Apple ceo tells you to bing it windows azure sql database kinect in the movies co. The bing maps fleet tracker is a tracking solution for small to medium sized teams.
Photosynth app update and best of bing maps summer xbox. It took half a dozen tries to arrive at this set of gestures, and although not perfect, we are happy with them. Microsoft adds kinect gesture support for windows 8 microsofts versatile kinect device has proven to be quite popular, and not just for gaming on the xbox 360. Were excited about best of bing maps, and we want you to get excited too. Make sure the kinect sensor is not plugged into any of the usb ports on the computer. Instructions for filing an arbitration claim with american arbitration association. Starting today, were inviting people in the us to take a new holidaythemed bing it on challenge for a chance to win a microsoft box of awesome windows phone 8, xbox 360 with kinect, windows 8 device or a chance at the grand prize. Take a detailed look at places from above, with aerial imagery in bing maps. Just a quick heads up to bank of america customers. Its not that web browsers wouldnt benefit by moving beyond the venerable mousekeyboard events. Bing provides a variety of search services, including. Bing in bing maps, traffic data and geocoding information are now supplied by nokia. Dick story of the same name the detectives were using a tool that looked a lot like kinect.
Use your hands to move the mouse cursor or gestures to navigate trough windows. Kinect devices continue to generate a lot of hacking interest. Once the sdk has completed installing successfully, ensure the kinect sensor is plugged into an external power source and then plug the kinect sensor into the pcs usb port. I have been working on a prossessor design for a while now which maps multiple variables over one and other and uses the corrolations to. If you start this up, youll see a screen something like the one below. Microsoft also brought other nongaming divisions, including its microsoft research, microsoft windows, and bing teams to help complete the system. In the app, go to the library and click best of bing maps to learn more and enter the contest. By e3 2009, the skeletal mapping technology was capable of simultaneously. Building on infostrats work which brought multitouch gestures such as pinch and zoom to kinect, response ltd, a small hungarian company, developed and demonstrated an alternative solution to navigate bing maps using the kinect sensor, which, they claim, offers a more kinectlike experience by allowing the user to use hisher whole body to.
The main goals of the project were to create a demo application that uses kinect for windows and large multitouch display for interaction with bing maps using gestures in several modes and find the. In this application two types of gesture is recognised one is based on visual gesture builder and other one is using bone joints as kinect v2 has the capability to capture small bone in hand so using hand. The main goals of the project were to create a demo application that uses kinect for windows and large multitouch display for interaction with bing maps using gestures in several modes and find the most natural way to interact with maps. To run the sample code you need to install bing map 3d. Kinect provides you with the coordinates x, y and z of 20 skeleton joints. Ve bing maps control with the 3dsensing technology from kinect in a windows 7 wpf application. Indeed, redmond offers a kinect sdk which offers devs the ability to integrate kinectbased motion controls into a windows pc environment.
With the release of an official microsoft kinect beta sdk for windows, things get even more interesting. Bing maps controlled with kinect 3dsensing technology this is just a multitouch application and i have added my one line of code to enable hand tracking to feed the wpf 4 touch stack. With the bing map app sdk, you can now create your own map apps built on top of bing maps and hosted on. Control windows using your xbox 360 kinect or kinect for windows. This lab is part of a series of hands on labs which teach you how to create a windows 8. Tapping into the power of kinect for windows windows. Although, microsoft has announced that it will discontinue services of 3d maps. Checking the most excellent source of all things kinect and there is no demo project that uses kinect with bing map sdk. Kinect v2 map visualisation this project is made using various technology. The service has its origins in microsofts previous search engines.
At this point, its possible to load up the verification tool there will be a new windows app called sdk browser 2. The bing maps v8 control is one of the most universal mapping controls available. I want to see some minority report like input to zoom on bing maps or to switch between apps. Msn search, windows live search and later live search. The next generation of microsofts categorydefining depth sensor lives on in the azure kinect dk, a developer kit with advanced ai sensors for sophisticated computer vision and speech models. Some call the naturally occurring rock formation in todays valentines day photo the two lovers, while others call it the heart of corsica.
Josh wall from the infostrat adavanced technology group demos a gis application that uses the infostrat motion framework and bing maps. Seeing as kinect on windows 10 is still very new and only in an early release we hope to see it become more useful on windows 10 going forward. From the download location, doubleclick on kinectsdkv2. Controlling bing maps with your hands has never been this easy and fun thanks to the kinect. Please use the print button on the bing maps action bar to print. You can search for this through the windows start menu. Please fill out this form and keep a copy for your records. Bing maps geocode libraries by microsoft are available in. Fun, easy and precise gestures make our kinect map solution unique. Duqu trojan, kinect, windows 8 on tablets marked microsoft. Here is xbox kinect on windows 10 with windows hello. The kinect bing maps is an intuitive platform which uses gestures in exploring and browsing through various city outlines. Test it out by searching for your favorite holiday activities such as how to make homemade.
Here is all the latest news from this week at microsoft. Which is why this summer, were giving away an xbox 360 with kinect prize package every week to the best panoramas shared to bing maps. Bronwen zande is a director of soul solutions, based in brisbane, australia. Along with kinect and its mobile software, microsoft will depend on windows 8 to help drive its revenue and profits in future years. Once the kinect for windows sdk has completed installing successfully, ensure the kinect sensor is connected to the power hub and the power hub is. Bing fund, maccabees kinect video, bing maps, msnbc. You accept these terms by using the kinect for windows sensor. To geocode a location, users can use bing maps rest resources that include guides to initialize, add controls, make requests, and display.
Someone might think that a persons height is the distance from the head joint to a foot joint. Oh, and the kinect for windows sensor is available in a number of new countries. Johnny chung lee, a researcher in microsofts applied sciences group and a key player in. Kinect free source code and tutorials for software developers and architects. Bing helps you turn information into action, making it faster and easier to go from searching to doing. Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by microsoft.
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