Kinect for Windows SDK version 1.7 announced

Good news: Microsoft has just yesterday announced a new version of the Kinect for Windows SDK, this time at version 1.7. This new release brings two new interesting features: Kinect Interactions and Kinect Fusion.

Kinect Interactions allows your app to easily use physical gestures, like "push", "grab" and "wave". This is all very good, but personally, I'm even more impressed about Kinect Fusion, which allows you to generate accurate 3D models of objects and persons. Similar-featured industrial 3D scanners can cost $100,000 – plenty lot for something you could do with consumer electronics.

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