Since Kinect’s release we’ve seen developers create an exciting array of unofficial uses for the hardware, from inexpensive motion capture, Minority Report style user interfaces, to interactive art installations. Today sees the first beta release of the official SDK. This version allows for two person skeletal tracking, interaction with the speech recognition API, depth data capture, and much more. The beta, documentation and sample code is available to download now from Microsoft
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