Kinect and Windows Presentation Foundation

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Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML and Kinect.  How to wire it all up?

Well first I guess we should go down to the virtual hardware store and buy some XAML Wire to connect with the Kinect software.

Is this really hard?

No, in fact one of the earlier approaches to this uses the OpenNI to connect Kinect with WPF:

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/169161/Kinect-and-WPF-Complete-body-tracking.aspx

This is a great project done by a student partner in Greece!

Next step: Students at Crenshaw High school will be developing with this product (or similar since I will use the Kinect SDK, not the OpenNI, not that there is anything wrong with OpenNI, but you gentle reader know that I am a Microsoft fanboy).