Understanding How the Kinect Works
Mansib Rahman · Apress eBooks · 2017
Although it is conceivable that we can learn to build a house without an education in physics, learn to be a chef without taking a course in food chemistry, and learn about programming without learning how a computer fundamentally relies on transistors and machine code, there is a reason that engineering schools, cooking academies, and computer science programs typically teach the theory that begot the profession before they teach how to actually take part in the profession. We may know to sear steak above a certain temperature for a certain time to hit medium rare, but if we know the Maillard reaction, we are on our way toward knowing how to cook hundreds of foods with perfect browning and flavor, even ones we have never before encountered. Similarly, in this chapter we will cover how the Kinect fundamentally works from an engineering perspective, followed by an overview of its software interface.