Microsoft Kinect

Kinect is a product of Microsoft which is used to sense the body movement of the humans. Kinect is majorly used with the Microsoft’s gaming console known as XBOX where you can play games by live action. Xbox is connected to kinect and kinect using its camera detects the points of the skeleton of the human body and performs respective actions on the gaming screen.

Kinect helps users to interact to display devices such as gaming consoles or PC without any touch or physical interactions. That leads to know about NUI (Natural User Interaction) which means to interact with the system without touching in fact using sensors to perform actions. RGB camera is integrated in Kinect to detect the scene. Not only this Kinect also detects the voice and perform actions what are assigned to that voice. Yes, Kinect is now widely used for programming different software which are useful in daily life of different people.

Kinect had a processor inside itself which makes the processing faster than the normal web cam of the computer systems.

Following is the image representing the kinect device description.

3D depth sensor is used distinguish the distance of the objects in the scene detected by the RGB camera and result in a image defining the scene in a gray scale mode (by default). Closer the object darker the color.