VGB - Visual Gesture Builder
Visual Gesture Builder (VGB) generates gesture databases used by titles to perform run-time gesture detection.
System Requirements
To use VGB, you must have the following hardware and software:
- A display screen with a minimum resolution of 1024×768.
- A 64-bit version of Windows 7 or a later version of Windows.
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. This is required to install the Xbox One XDK.
- Xbox Event File (XEF) files that contain, at the least, skeleton and depth information. For information on recording and viewing an Xbox Event File (XEF), see Kinect Studio.
- Visual Gesture Builder (VGB) is only be available to applications that have set the Kinect IsVersionLocked app manifest setting to “true”. Without this setting an AccessDeniedException will be returned when constructing a VisualGestureBuilderFrameSource. This ensures that a given VGB recognizer only runs on the NUI pipeline version that it was built and trained against.
To add this setting to an app add the following extension to the <Extensions> section of your app manifest:
<Extensions> <mx:PackageExtension Category="windows.kinect"> <mx:Kinect IsVersionLocked="true"> <mx:AudioPipeline Version="1.0.0" /> <mx:SpeechPipeline Version="1.0.0" /> <mx:VisionPipeline Version="1.0.0" /> </mx:Kinect> </mx:PackageExtension> </Extensions>
Note Simple NUI Gesture, a sample, includes VGB.zip, a file that contains an example VGB solution. To download samples, see Samples on the Xbox Game Developer site.
VGB uses WinRT APIs in the Windows.Kinect Namespace and Microsoft.Kinect Namespace namespaces.
In this section
Visual Gesture Builder: Overview
Provides an overview of Visual Gesture Builder.
Visual Gesture Builder User Interface
Provides information about using Visual Gesture Builder.
Tutorial: Building a Gesture Detector
Shows how to use Visual Gesture Builder to build a gesture detector.
VGB Command Line Options
Describes the VisualGestureBuilder command line tool.
Machine Learning Technologies
Describes the technologies used to create the gesture data.
Resources
See the Visual Gesture Builder A Data Driven Solution white paper for a discussion of best practices, tips, and techniques for building gestures with VGB. The full list of white papers is available at Xbox Game Developer: White Papers.