Kinect and Natural User Interface Overviews

The Natural User Interface (NUI) enables users to control an app by using gestures and voice commands rather than handheld controllers.

In this section

Introducing the NUI Platform
A brief tour of the components of the NUI platform.

Capabilities of the Sensor
Specifications and capabilities of NUI-enabled sensors.

Defining Privacy-sensitive Capabilities of the App
Specifying that the app has capabilities that qualify it for working with privacy-sensitive data.

NUI High Definition Face Tracking Overview
Discusses the PayForPlay High Definition Face Tracking API.

Lean Tracking Overview
Demonstrates how to use the Lean Tracking APIs.

Speech Overview
Overview of speech recognition with the Kinect microphone array on the Xbox One console.

Gesture Interactions Overview
Demonstrates how to use the NUI interactions API to implement gesture interactions for enabled targeting with a hand cursor, pressing a button, and scrolling.

Kinect Sensor API Overview
Explains the data types in the Kinect sensor for Xbox One WinRT APIs.

Handling Exceptions When Using WinRT Async Functions
Provides a sample of handling exceptions when using WinRT async functions.

See also

Kinect Sensor API Reference

NUI Speech API Reference