Kinect SDK - resources for developers

The official Kinect SDK is here, so there shouldn’t be any problems with incompatible frameworks and libraries on Windows systems. That being said, there are already a couple of interesting resources that I would say are important for developers who just start Kinect development, and for those that were already working with it (e.g. with OpenNI or OpenKinect).

Binaries/Toolkits/Samples

• Download the SDK
• Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1
• Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit
• Kinect for Windows SDK Quickstarts samples and slides
• KinectContrib (with Visual Studio 2010 Templates for Kinect SDK)

Documentation

• Kinect SDK – Programming Guide
• Kinect SDK FAQ
• Kinect SDK Forums
• Skeletal Viewer Walkthrough—Rendering Data with the NUI API (C++ and C#)
• AudioCaptureRaw Walkthrough—Capturing the Raw Audio Stream (C++)
• MFAudioFilter Walkthrough—Capturing Audio Streams with a Media Foundation Audio Filter (C++)
• MicArrayEchoCancellation Walkthrough—Capturing Audio Streams with Acoustic Echo Cancellation and Beam Forming (C++)
• RecordAudio Walkthrough—Recording an Audio Stream and Monitoring Direction (C#)
• Speech Walkthrough—Recognizing Voice Commands (C#)
• Drawing joints in XNA
• Kinect SDK and F# – a standard library in a non-standard language
• Kinect Fundamentals #1: Installation & Setup
• Kinect Fundamentals #2: Basic programming
• Kinect Fundamentals #3: Getting distance-data from the Depth Sensor
• Intro to the Kinect SDK–Adding Speech Recognition

Videos

• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor
• Setting Up Your Development Environment
• Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals
• Camera Fundamentals
• Working with Depth Data
• Audio Fundamentals

Projects

• Jellybean, the Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair
• Kinect Lightsaber
• Kinductor
• Kinect + WP7 Interop
• Kinect Paint
• Kinect Mouse Cursor

NOTE: More resources/links will be added as those appear. If you have something to add, leave a link in the comments section below.