Making Things See

Kinect Artists

This book will introduce you to the Kinect in a number of ways. We’ve already looked at how the Kinect works and how it came into existence. In the next few chapters, we’ll cover the technical and programming basics, and we’ll build a raft of example applications. In the last three chapters, we’ll get into some of the application areas the Kinect has opened, covering the basics of what it takes to work in those fascinating fields.

However, before we dive into all of that, I wanted to give you a sense of some of the work that has gone before you. Ever since its release, a diverse set of artists and technologists has made use of the Kinect to produce a wide range of interesting projects. Many of these practitioners had been working ...