New Imagine Cup contests - Kinect and Windows 8. Or how to exchange an idea for Kinect for Windows

    Attention habrastudentov, habraspaspirants and habrastrasheklassniki!

    Within the framework of the Imagine Cup , two new online competitions were announced - a competition for the development of Metro applications for Windows 8 , and a Kinect Challenge competition. Read on to find out how you can get Kinect for Windows for free to realize your idea, as well as how to learn how to program for Windows 8 and test your knowledge! Well, the winners of the competitions, as always, are waiting for a trip to Australia in the summer of 2012 for the international final of the competition.





    The Kinect Fun Labs Challenge is a competition of applications that take advantage of Kinect’s advanced sensor capabilities to track human movements and control a computer from a distance. In the first round (application deadline is March 6, 2012 ), only the idea and plan of the project should be presented. The 100 best applications will go to the second round, and they will be provided with a new Kinect for Windows sensor for development , as well as specialized development software with examples and demos. What is important to note:
    • Having come up with a good idea, you have a very good opportunity to get a Kinect for Windows sensor worth more than $ 250 (in the USA, in Russia it is not yet sold and it is not clear when it will be).
    • Teams that use Kinect in their projects in the Software Design category must also submit a project to the Kinect Challenge.
    • If you think that using Kinect in projects is difficult, then you are mistaken! The sensor itself can track the position of the human skeleton, returning you the coordinates of 20 skeleton mates. In addition, Kinect can work as a webcam and a 3D scanner, returning a three-dimensional picture of the scene that he is viewing in the form of a point cloud. More development lessons for Kinect can be found at DreamSpark Academy .

    For the Windows 8 app contest, you need to develop a modern Metro style app for the new Microsoft operating system. At the first stage (until March 6), you must successfully pass the online test, which will be available during the day of January 31, February 7, 14, 21 and 28 and March 6 . Successfully passed the test are in the second round, which is dedicated to the development itself.

    Development for Windows 8 is today the “cutting edge” of development technologies offered by Microsoft. You can easily learn how to program applications in the metro style for the new operating system if you previously developed applications in C # / XAML for Windows Phone 7, or if you are familiar with HTML5 and Javascript. You can learn on the website http://dev.windows.com , or according to the materials of the conference // BUILD . It's time to study this topic a little, pass the tests and try yourself one of the first in a new promising direction of development.

    Good luck I will be happy to answer questions in the comments or on Twitter .

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