According to the rumor site, Microsoft is planning to stream a Channel 9 special event at 9:30AM PST on Thursday which will celebrate the release of the Kinect for Windows SDK beta.
Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows SDK beta will allegedly include the following support:
* Robust Skeletal Tracking for high-performance capabilities that track the skeleton image of one or two persons moving within the Kinect field of view
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Advanced Audio Capabilities, including four-element microphone array with sophisticated acoustic noise and echo cancellation for great audio; beam formation to identify the current sound source and integration with the Windows speech recognition API also included
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XYZ depth camera for standard color camera stream access and depth data that indicates the distance of the object from the Kinect camera
Considering some of the incredible unauthorized work done by PC users with Kinect - especially in the field of robotics - it’ll be fascinating to see what kind of stuff will be developed with an official SDK and Microsoft backing.
