I’m interested in programming the Kinect to track people over a largish area.
In particular, I’m looking to track players on a small sports field using gestures to record events in a sports game.
So far I have not found any examples of this being done before, other than Processing examples of tracking players on recorded video.
Could anybody please provide any examples of Microsoft’s Kinect technology being applied to sport?
This is not what the Kinect is designed to do, and is not something that it will do for you.
The Kinect is capable to tracking no more then 6 people at a time, and only 2 people actively. It works best for people 6-8 feet away and will not track anyone much further then that.
For what you are proposing the Kinect would not benefit you. It would probably hinder you, since it is designed for 1-2 persons at a limited distance. You would be better off with a higher quality camera.