Kinect for Windows SDK beta

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/

현지 시간으로 2011년 6월 16일 오전 9시30분 Kinect SDK bata버전이 발표되었네요.
학술, 연구용이며 상용제품 라이센스는 아니랍니다.

Microsoft Kinect Device가 연결된 Windows 7 OS에서 실행되며,
Visual Studio 2010을 사용해서 C++, c#, VB용 프로그램을 만들 수 있다네요

SDK를 보면

• Raw sensor streams
  Access to raw data streams from the depth sensor, color camera sensor, and four-element microphone array enables developers to build upon the low-level streams that are generated by the Kinect sensor.
• Skeletal tracking
  The capability to track the skeleton image of one or two people moving within the Kinect field of view make it easy to create gesture-driven applications.
• Advanced audio capabilities
  Audio processing capabilities include sophisticated acoustic noise suppression and echo cancellation, beam formation to identify the current sound source, and integration with the Windows speech recognition API.
• Sample code and documentation
  The SDK includes more than 100 pages of technical documentation. In addition to built-in help files, the documentation includes detailed walkthroughs for most samples provided with the SDK.
• Easy installation
  The SDK installs quickly, requires no complex configuration, and the complete installer size is less than 100 MB. Developers can get up and running in just a few minutes with a standard standalone Kinect sensor unit (widely available at retail outlets).

센서, 오디오, 시스템 API 등을 직접 접근할 수 있을 것 같습니다.

이번 기회에 Kinect 하나 장만해야 하나...음...

System Requirements
You must run applications that are built by using the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta in a native Windows environment. You cannot run applications in a virtual machine, because the Microsoft Kinect drivers and this SDK Beta must be installed on the computer that is running the application.
Supported Operating Systems and Architectures
 Windows 7 (x86 or x64)
Hardware Requirements
 Computer with a dual-core, 2.66-GHz or faster processor
 Windows 7–compatible graphics card that supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c capabilities
 2 GB of RAM
 Kinect for Xbox 360® sensor—retail edition, which includes special USB/power cabling
Software Requirements
 Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 Express or other Visual Studio 2010 edition
 Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 (installed with Visual Studio 2010)
 For C++ SkeletalViewer samples:
 DirectX Software Development Kit, June 2010 or later version
 DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
 For Speech sample (x86 only):
 Microsoft Speech Platform - Server Runtime, version 10.2 (x86 edition)
 Microsoft Speech Platform - Software Development Kit, version 10.2 (x86 edition)
 Kinect for Windows Runtime Language Pack, version 0.9 (acoustic model from Microsoft Speech Platform for the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta)