Building a Kinect game with Python
- Type:
- Talk
- Audience level:
- Novice
- Category:
- Gaming
March 10th 1:35 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Description
This talk will show you how to develop a game using Kinect from Python. I'll start w/ an introduction to the Kinect API including skeleton tracking, normal video, depth video, and audio APIs including speech recognition. I’ll then show how the Kinect APIs can be incorporated into a game using PyGame. After the talk you’ll be able to start developing your own Python based Kinect games!
Abstract
- Introduction
- Prerequisities
- Kinect Device
- Kinect SDK
- Kinect API Overview
- Skeleton Tracking
- Video
- Depth
- Audio / Voice Recognition
- PyGame Integration
- Post Kinect events to PyGame event queue
- Processing skeleton data, drawing skeletons, working w/ video stream
- The Game