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   Simon J Stuart
   December 28th, 2010 - 10:53

   Thank you so much for showing what can be done with my TKinect for Delphi component. I’m glad you are making great use of it :)

   I’ve just tweeted the link to this page so others can see your brilliant demo.

   Just wondering: did you suffer the juddering images on the RGB and Depth feeds when using a standard TBitmap to render the image?

   Would love to take a peek under the cover of your test app, see if anything can be integrated into the component directly (If you’re okay with that, I mean)

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     Aleks
     December 28th, 2010 - 12:04

     Hi Simon,

     As you see, it was too tempting not to try to write some piece of Delphi code and play with Kinect! :-)

     Answering your question: I abandoned the idea of using standard graphic components from the very beginning, as they are too slow, by definition. The ones I used (graphic32 and GLScene) are super cool, and IMHO there is no need for anything else. Those libraries are exceptionally well written, easy to use and well documented (especially graphic32, but GLScene has tons of examples). In one sentence: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. If you are asking about flicker – just use graphic32 and everything will be ok, I promise!
     Please use my sample projects at your will and also feel free to modify it the way you want. I do apologize, they are pretty messy, but this is “a playground” rather than a ready app.
     Let me know if you would be interested in writing something cool together. :-)

     With kind regards,
     Aleks

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       Simon J Stuart
       December 28th, 2010 - 16:08

       Aleks,
       I have been using GLScene for many years… I’ve even produced a simple scripted game engine using it as the rendering engine (my Lua4Delphi suite formed the scripting engine)… it is brilliant but for one downside: doesn’t provide OGL 2+… still brilliant for the kind of demos you produced :)

       I’ve credited you on the TKinect official page on my blog (http://www.lakraven.com/delphi-stuff/tkinect/) and even used one of your screen captures as the feature image (I particularly like your Depth display with the Kinect icon… very classy)

       I think there are things in your demo which could be integrated into the TKinect component’s source directly… I’m going to go through the sources shortly and see what. Obviously the next update to TKinect will include a credit to yourself and a link to your blog.

       Your demos are fantastic… I’ve tested them, though for reasons I don’t quite understand I still have issues with the camera feeds on my setup. Basically the RGB and Depth footage flicker terribly, and I even get ghosting. These aren’t issues with TKinect or your demos, I’m told, but rather some USB hosts don’t particularly like the Kinect controller. I’m going to test it out on my other systems to see if ANY of them play nicely.

       I’ve added you to my follow list on Twitter and subscribed to your blog’s RSS feed :)

       As regards working on a joint project, definitely interested though it’s worth mentioning that right now I’ve got SO MANY projects on the go… if I take on any more I doubt anything will ever get finished:
       - Lua4Delphi 2.0
       - AGE (Another Game Engine)
       - ADL SDK translation (ATi Drivers’ SDK translation for Delphi)
       - TTwitter (and a whole bunch of other social networking components, along with the “Social Delphi” website)
       - Lnka.me (my URL Shortening service)
       - SAPI 5.3 for Delphi (a complete translation of the Microsoft SAPI for Vista/7 and a set of expanding components on top of that)

       As you can see… a lot of projects ;)

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   Andreano Lanusse
   December 28th, 2010 - 20:03

   I’m PS3 fan, but I really like Kinect.

   Great job and thanks for this amazing demo.

   Andreano Lanusse

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   Marco Cantu
   December 31st, 2010 - 15:14

   Hope you don’t mind I blogged about this great post on my site. http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/kinect_delphi_aleks.html

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   peter lerno
   January 1st, 2011 - 14:29

   Wow I am a designer and sadly still in the proces of learning programming ,but I would love to see what the future brings with these new toys.
   Tell me is it possible to scan an entire room in 3d with fairly accurate dimensions and export the data to 3ds max or autocad?

   Great job
   new years greetings
   Peter

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     Aleks
     January 1st, 2011 - 16:51

     Hi Peter,

     Well, it is possible to scan entire room for sure, but I would have serious concerns regarding the resolution and a quality of such scan. ;-) Honestly – I don’t think Kinect can be used this way, because… it’s rather still a cool toy then a professional lidar or any sort of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDAR). In my opinion – it does what it is designed for: low-resolution human body movement detection (in best option: detection of hand and fingers).

     With kind regards,
     A.

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   Roland Kossow
   January 8th, 2011 - 23:00

   If you should use Delphi XE there is an issue with graphics 32.
   Graphics 32 won’t compile cause of some overloadede hypot and sincos procedures which are now contained in the standard Math-Unit with the similar signature Single vs. TFloat.
   You can probably “solve” the problem by cmmenting out the GR32_MATH version (but I do not know yet if this is causing any negative side effects).

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     Aleks
     January 9th, 2011 - 09:14

     Wow! That’s an interesting news. Honestly, I am using pretty old version of Delphi (Turbo Delphi actually), so everything works fine there. As soon as there will be free version of Delphi XE – I would be happy to test it out for sure. :)

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   Roland Kossow
   January 9th, 2011 - 13:24

   Hm … no … I will not start to argue about this :-)

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     Aleks
     January 9th, 2011 - 14:40

     Dear Roland – no worries. Actually the framework for accessing the Kinect data (Simon J Stuart and I – we are currently working on it) will not be using Graphics32 at all. Well, optionally you might be able to use is if you want, but definitely you will not be “forced” to. :-)

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   Sean
   January 27th, 2011 - 11:24

   WOW!!!DUDE you are amazing, just got my kinect and seen that people were making use of it to do some cool things on a pc! Now i know i can put my delphi skills to some use i am deffo gunna be putting some time into this!!! im feeling i need to make some soft to be able to do different controls for emulators. Really just wanna play Duke Nukem 3D as the controller lol hard task maybe but ill give it a go

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   Roland Kossow
   March 15th, 2011 - 23:05

   Hello Aleks,
   will the framework support motion detection (something like a gesture engine for kinect)?
   What would be the preferred algorithm for something like that (Neural Networks, State machines)?
   I wonder how to best implement something like that.
   Thanks a lot for your demos once more.

   Best regards

   Roland

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     Aleks
     March 17th, 2011 - 12:38

     As for now – there is no framework in use (as all which exists already should be re-implemented for Delphi and/or wrapped-up). So if you look for anything but Delphi – there are tons of gesture recognition frameworks around. I also suggest you to make yourself familiar with stuff like PCL (Point Cloud Library) and all related.

     Actually the Delphi unit for Kinect will be rewritten as soon as a new official SDK will be available from Micro$oft. Stay tuned and look here and at Simon’s page: http://www.lakraven.com/

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       Roland Kossow
       March 21st, 2011 - 10:48

       Hi Aleks,
       thanks for the answer. I looked for (or more details on) something like http://www.lakraven.com/2011/03/17/tkinect-delphi-kinectcursor-demo/ .
       It seems to be not too dificult to track a blob and interpret it as a cursor, but how do I deal with more complex body movements?

       I figure PCL is the way to continue studying. Thanks a lot for your support.

       Best regards

       Roland

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   Roland Kossow
   March 21st, 2011 - 23:39

   http://www.openni.org/documentation

   … looks also interesting considering this.

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    Roland Kossow
    March 27th, 2011 - 21:15

    Hello Aleks,
    there was an interesting post on slahdot considering “Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images” …
    this is how “Microsoft Research Cambridge & Xbox Incubation” is solving the problem.
    Do you know if this algorithms will be part of the Kinect SDK and will TKinect wrap them up?

    Best regards

    Roland

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    Richard C
    May 25th, 2011 - 12:30

    What excellent work – thank you. I had toyed with the idea of trying this but it looked like it was going to take ages to do so I forgot about it – so well done for bringing the Kinect to delphi – I can think of loads of fun uses for it!

    So now I get all the fun and none of the development pain. I already use glscene and graphics32 so I can just start playing!

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