[This is a guest post by John Murray, a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working in the Expressive Intelligence Studio. His work focuses on augmented reality, natural user interfaces, natural language generation and artificial intelligence, especially in games. He blogs at Lucid Anomaly; you can follow him on Twitter at @LucidBard.–@jbj]
On June 16th, I and 29 other developers (drawn from graduate programs and affiliates) converged in Redmond for a secret 24 hour CodeCamp hosted by Microsoft Research. The source of the secrecy was the highly anticipated launch of the new Kinect for Windows SDK beta. (SDK = Software Development Kit.) The Kinect is a peripheral developed for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 that captures depth information in addition to a color video stream and sound….
Read the full story here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/kinecting-the-dots-the-kinects-recent-sdk-launch/35428
