In this tutorial, you will learn how to make Microsoft’s Kinect sensor communicate with an swf file as I recently demonstrated in a previous post. It actually doesn’t require a ton of code, but it does involve several different technologies and there is a bit of set up to get the Kinect side going that I won’t be going into detail on. However, links to the channel9 video tutorials are provided.

This tutorial will focus on the modifications to the C# code, the Node.js server and of course the Flash file and ActionScript. As usual, all files are available for download at the end of this tutorial. (more...)

If you've read my previous posts then you know I have been working with Microsoft's Kinect SDK for Windows. One of my goals from the start was to integrate Kinect with Flash and earlier this week I was successful in doing just that! I used a technique similar to what the Blitz Agency had done when the Prime Sense Kinect drivers were released earlier this year.

The concept is pretty simple: Kinect tracks the user's hand, sends the position data to a server and that server sends the data to Flash. I started by writing a very simple server with Node.js and then modified the skeletal tracking demo from the channel9 site to send data to the server using a standard socket. The only thing left to do then was set up an swf file to accept data from the server and use that data to move around a cursor. I'll post something more in-depth on this later, but for now you can check out the video below to see it in action!