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I am currently using the Kinect for Windows and the zigfu.js/three.js library in an attempt to track a hand within a browser.
I would ideally like to create points on the fingers to find out their position. I have looked around and I can’t seem to find any hint as to whether this would definitely work.
I was hoping someone on here could perhaps point me in the right direction?
Short answer: there is no facility in the Kinect SDK to tell you finger positions.
Long answer: the SDK is set up to do full body tracking, and at the ranges where full body tracking works best the resolution of the camera is so low as to make tracking individual fingers very hard indeed. Too much noise, too little signal, etc. You can see that just by looking at the raw depth data yourself.
There’s no particular reason why fingers couldn’t be tracked at close range, its just that no-one has done it yet (at least not in a publically available SDK form!)