Question

Really new to kinect. I am trying to read up material I find. I found technical spec and the .net API documentation, but could figure out if what I am trying to do is possible:

Can I instruct the kinect to physically move the cameras? (I want to view other people in the room for example).

Edited: I am using the MS Kinect SDK.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use NuiCamera.ElevationAngle to set the elevation angle of kinect camera. Yea, as mentioned above answer, you can only move up and down.

This is the example in Visual C#

I create a slider to get the value. Kinect Mortor is limited to -27 to 27 degree of rotation only.

 <Slider Value = "{Binding ElevationAngle, Mode =TwoWay}" Height="171" Interval="1" IsSnapToTickEnabled="True" Margin="914,536,284,45" Maximum="27" Minimum="-27" Name="slider_tilt" Orientation="Vertical" SmallChange="1" TickPlacement="TopLeft" Width="38" />

Create a button called btnSetTilt and under the button click event, feed the value of slider to Elevation angle. That’s it.

    private void btnSetTilt_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
          //Set angle to slider_tilt value
       nui.NuiCamera.ElevationAngle = (int)slider_tilt.Value; 


    }