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