Tracking Position Person using Kinect

Interactive Body Tracking: Creating a Motion-Activated Text using Kinect

This tutorial video guides you through the process of building an interactive project that responds directly to a user’s body movements. The system is designed to track the spine position of a person using a Kinect sensor. The core functionality is to trigger a defined text effect when the user steps into a specific area on the screen and turn the effect off when they step outside of that target zone

What is the Kinect?

Kinect sensor was a motion-sensing device for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles that allowed users to control games and navigate menus using only body movements, gestures, and voice commands. 

It featured a combination of an RGB camera, a depth sensor (using infrared light), and a microphone array to track human bodies in 3D space, recognize faces, and interpret voice commands, essentially making the user the controller