MSKinectService

Last revision: ver. 5.0 - 21 July 2014

Uses the Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK to access joint and (eventually) speech recognition data. Kinect v2.0 support is currently in development and is not in the current public build.

Generated events

• Service type: Mocap
• Event types: Update
• Event data fields: position (head) and extraData float array containing joint position

Common Mocap Event Fields

• timestamp:
• sourceID: Skeleton / body ID
• serviceID:
• serviceType: Mocap
• type: Update
• flags: 0 (not used)
• position: x, y, z of the skeleton's head
• orientation: not used

Extra Data Fields

The following table shows the ExtraData Vector3 index mapping to the current supported skeleton tracking systems (OpenNI and Kinect for Windows v1.x and v2.0). Index values not supported by the current service will return a Vector3(0,0,0).

ExtraDataVector3 index	OpenNIService	MSKinectService (SDK v1.x)	MSKinect2Service (SDK v2.0)
0	---	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_HIP_CENTER	JointType_SpineBase
1	XN_SKEL_HEAD	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_HEAD	JointType_Head
2	XN_SKEL_NECK	---	JointType_Neck
3	XN_SKEL_TORSO	---	---
4	XN_SKEL_WAIST	---	---
5	XN_SKEL_LEFT_COLLAR	---	---
6	XN_SKEL_LEFT_SHOULDER	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_SHOULDER_LEFT	JointType_ShoulderLeft
7	XN_SKEL_LEFT_ELBOW	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_ELBOW_LEFT	JointType_ElbowLeft
8	XN_SKEL_LEFT_WRIST	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_WRIST_LEFT	JointType_WristLeft
9	XN_SKEL_LEFT_HAND	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_HAND_LEFT	JointType_HandLeft
10	XN_SKEL_LEFT_FINGERTIP	---	JointType_HandTipLeft
11	XN_SKEL_LEFT_HIP	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_HIP_LEFT	JointType_HipLeft
12	XN_SKEL_LEFT_KNEE	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_KNEE_LEFT	JointType_KneeLeft
13	XN_SKEL_LEFT_ANKLE	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_ANKLE_LEFT	JointType_AnkleLeft
14	XN_SKEL_LEFT_FOOT	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_FOOT_LEFT	JointType_FootLeft
15	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_COLLAR	---	---
16	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_SHOULDER	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_SHOULDER_RIGHT	JointType_ShoulderRight
17	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_ELBOW	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_ELBOW_RIGHT	JointType_ElbowRight
18	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_WRIST	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_WRIST_RIGHT	JointType_WristRight
19	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_HAND	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_HAND_RIGHT	JointType_HandRight
20	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_FINGERTIP	---	JointType_HandTipRight
21	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_HIP	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_HIP_RIGHT	JointType_HipRight
22	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_KNEE	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_KNEE_RIGHT	JointType_KneeRight
23	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_ANKLE	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_ANKLE_RIGHT	JointType_AnkleRight
24	XN_SKEL_RIGHT_FOOT	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_FOOT_RIGHT	JointType_FootRight
25	---	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_SPINE	JointType_SpineMid
26	---	NUI_SKELETON_POSITION_SHOULDER_CENTER	JointType_SpineShoulder
27	---	---	JointType_ThumbLeft
28	---	---	JointType_ThumbRight

Configuration parameters

• updateInterval (float): the delay time in seconds between polling for new data (default: 0.01)