Since the release of Microsoft’s Kinect, we’ve seen a deluge of very cool hacks and modifications done to the system, allowing for all sorts of cool uses for the motion control camera array. As promised, Microsoft is now embracing the hobbyist and indie Kinect community by releasing the Kinect SDK for free on the Internet.

The SDK only works for Windows 7, and you’ll need a pretty powerful machine to work with it, but once you download it here, you have access to “drivers, rich APIs for raw sensor streams and human motion tracking, installation documents, and resource materials.”

According to Microsoft, “It provides Kinect capabilities to developers who build applications with C++, C#, or Visual Basic by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.”

We can’t wait to see what the creative programmers of the world do with Kinect.

Source: ZDNet