Kinect for Windows SDK beta

Microsoft has long promised to give everyone the official opportunity to create applications under Kinect. I must say that thanks to a number of opensource projects, this was possible before, but this state of affairs did not give all the possibilities, and from a licensing point of view it was unacceptable. Now everyone can officially develop software that uses the full power of Kinekt to its fullest.

List of SDK features:

• C ++, C #, or Visual Basic Development
• Low-level access to sensor data (camera, depth sensor, microphone array)
• Skeleton tracking for one or two people per frame
• Advanced work with sound (noise and echo cancellation, speaker definition, integration with speech recognition engine)

SDK link
Feature Description
Documentation
SDK Tutorial Videos

Ps . I must say, this is only a beta version and it has two unpleasant consequences:

1. Microsoft prohibits commercial applications on it. Only study, tests, demos, etc.
2. Microsoft honestly warns that the commercial SDK can and will be quite different (it’s not clear what exactly).