Kinect Bowls

Key Details

  • Utilized Microsoft's Kinect V1
  • Full body tracking and interaction
  • Team of 4: 2 programmers, 2 researchers
  • Was created to fulfil a brief by an NHS researcher

About

The brief for this project was provided by a NHS researcher, who requested a game that would aid recovery of people with Parkinson’s Disease.
Our team decided to create a bowls (Lawn Bowls) game that utilized the Kinect to track the player’s movements.
We used a library created by one of our lecturers that wrapped OpenGL for our backend as this allowed us to focus on how the kinect code.
I mostly worked on the Kinect code and the backend, while the other programmer (Jamie Slowgrove) worked on gameplay and physics.