Acknowledgments

Many people have provided assistance and inspiration as we wrote this book. We would first like to thank our current and prior colleagues at Razorfish: Steve Dawson, Luke Hamilton, Alex Nichols, Dung Tien Le and Jimmy Moore for freely sharing their ideas and even, at times, their code with us. Being surrounded by knowledgeable and clever people has helped us to make this book better. We would also like to thank our employers at Razorfish, in particular Jonathan Hull, for creating an environment where we can explore new design concepts and bleeding edge technology in order to build amazing experiences.

We are indebted to Microsoft's Kinect for Windows team for providing us access to internal builds as well as assistance in understanding how the Kinect SDK works, especially: Rob Relyea, Sheridan Jones, Bob Heddle, JP Wollersheim and Mauro Giusti.

We would also like to thank the hackers, the academics, the artists and the madmen who learned to program for the Kinect sensor long before there was a Kinect for Windows SDK and subsequently filled the internet with video after inspiring video showing the versatility and ingenuity of the Kinect hardware. We were able to write this book because they lit the way.

–Jarrett and James