{"id":2137,"date":"2015-07-10T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2023-01-08T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T14:08:56","slug":"kinect-v2-mouse-control-w-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"Kinect v2 Mouse Control w\/ Source Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A mouse control application for Kinect v2, including a couple of options for various uses.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KinectV2MouseControl_Screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KinectV2MouseControl_Screenshot.png\" alt=\"Kinect v2 Mouse Control Form Screenshot\" width=\"917\" height=\"784\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2149\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KinectV2MouseControl_Screenshot.png 917w, http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/KinectV2MouseControl_Screenshot-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad that I&#8217;ve just become a Microsoft Kinect MVP since this July, so I think I need to do something more.<\/p>\n<p>One request asked most since the original Kinect came out is, &#8220;can I use my hand to control the mouse cursor?&#8221; There you can find a few applications for doing this with original Kinect on the web.<\/p>\n<p>These days, some people still asked me about this kind of application for Kinect v2. Then I strangely found there&#8217;s no such downloadable applications on the web. I gotta release a Kinect v2 version app. And here&#8217;s it, with source code!<\/p>\n<p>I initially develop this for Francis Kim(He&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/franciskim.co\">Magento Developer<\/a>). Thanks Francis for letting me release this freely!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mouse Sensitivity<\/li>\n<li>Pause-To-Click Time Required<\/li>\n<p>The time you hold your hand for as a click<\/p>\n<li>Pause Movement Thresold<\/li>\n<p>How large the circle range you hold your hand inside for a little while would be a click<\/p>\n<li>Cursor Smoothing<\/li>\n<p>The large it is, the smoother the cursor would move, more slowly as well.<\/p>\n<li>Grip Gesture<br \/>\nGrip to drag\/click<\/li>\n<li>Pause To Click<br \/>\nHold your hand and don&#8217;t move for a little while to click.<\/li>\n<li>No clicks, move cursor only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>Github: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TangoChen\/KinectV2MouseControl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KinectV2MouseControl<\/a><br \/>\nEXE files: [download id=&#8221;24&#8243;]<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mouse control application for Kinect v2, including a couple of options for various uses. I&#8217;m so glad that I&#8217;ve just become a Microsoft Kinect MVP since this July, so I think I need to do something more. One request &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/?p=2137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kinect","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tangochen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}