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		rosser on March 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft open-sources Kinect code samples Based on the blog post linked in the article [1], yes: these are code samples. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/k4wdev/archive/2013/03/06/easy-acces...

stephenhuey on March 12, 2013 [–]

And yes, they allow you to interact with the hardware, through the API.

rosser on March 12, 2013 | [–]

I think the parent to my comment was asking whether this code allowed low-level hardware access, not API-mediated access. IIRC, the Linux Kinect driver (libfreenect [1]) provides that kind of access.

[1] https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect

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