The Kinect Research Framework is an open toolset  for developing new interfaces to media and spaces using the Kinect.  It is based around skeleton / hand tracking servers written in Processing using simpleopenni that can send the tracking data to any program that can receive TCP/UDP data.  The goal for the project is to create a simple, open protocol to simplify Kinect programming and create a dynamic network of interoperability between programs, hardware, and the physical world.

Kinect Research Framework Download

Other videos showing the development of the KRF can be seen HERE

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