Writing this book would not have been possible without the help of many people. I had a wonderful time while writing, which was mainly due to the skills, support, dedication, and motivation of the people around me.

First of all I am extremely thankful to Sachin Joshi, Pinal Dave, and Prasant Kraleti for the continuous support and motivation they gave me from the time I started writing this book. They have been awesome with their support at every stage of writing.

I am deeply thankful to the entire team at Packt Publishing, including Prasad, Susmita, Mayur, Prasanna, Dipesh, Farhaan, and Nitee. I would like to extend my thanks to the Project Coordinator, Yashodhan, for his support from the beginning. Thank you all for your effort and dedication.

A sincere thanks to Atul Gupta and Anoop Madhusudanan for their insightful and excellent technical review. They helped me to identify and fill the gaps and improve the overall quality of this book.

I would like to acknowledge the efforts of Atul Verma for his extended support for in-depth technical review, and also for his time in discussing, peer coding, and providing feedback on many topics.

I would like to thank Jebarson Jebamony for his excellent peer review for this book, and also for spending his time and effort in sharing his thoughts and feedback for improving the content. He also helped me to organize content and design many demo applications.

I would like to thank Arka Bhattacharya and Atul Sharma for their offline review of the book and for sharing their feedback. A big thank you to Rajesh R. Nair for helping me on designing sketches and icons, and also Rishabh Verma for capturing and sharing the dismantled sensor images with me.

My sincere thanks to Jag Dua and Sanjoyan Mitra, two true leaders I have worked with. I would like to extend my thanks to Jag for giving me his Kinect sensor when I was overseas and was urgently looking for a Kinect sensor for some experimentation.

I was fortunate enough to be present at many seminars and conferences over the past year, on Kinect. This helped me to interact with many developers and students who are really passionate about programming with Kinect. Thanks to each one of them for spending their time with me and discussing about their problems and questions.

A big thanks to the Kinect for Windows team, the Kinect for Windows Community, and my Community friends, and MSPs who helped me in writing this book. I would like to thank my friends Kunal Chowdhury, Abhishek Sur, Dhananjay Kumar, Suresh Bemagani, Sheo Narayan, and Sharavan Kasagoni for their continuous support and help while writing this book. I am also thankful to the bloggers on the various Kinect topics, and also the researchers who have been working and experimenting day in and day out with Kinect. On many occasions I have been reading their posts and referring to them.

I spent time in writing when I should have been sleeping, spending time with family, or playing with my newborn child. I'd never have been able to write this book without the support of my wife, Ananya. I cannot even express her love and support while I was writing this book. Thank you Ananya.

Being a Community lover and an active blogger, I have been writing blogs for the last couple of years; but this is the first time I am putting something in the form of a book. The credit goes to each one of you who has been connected with me and have been my blog reader and supporter.

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