Can Kinect 360 do hand gesture recognition?

Question

Now I know the officially supported model for kinect sdk is the kinect windows, but the price difference between kinect 360 and kinect windows is almsot 3 times. I could buy kinect 360 for 100 bucks while I can't find any one selling kinect windows below 250.

not to mention that kinect 360 is widely sold in every major store while only 1 vendor is selling kinect windows in my region. the limited supply means the price won't change because there's no competition.

anyway, I just want to know whether kinect 360 can do what I need for my project. I am trying to do hand gesture and motion recognition using kinect, basically using it to do desktop operations like click, drag, and drop, and I need to do it for both hands. from what I know - only kinect windows can do close mode.

does kinect 360 have enough resolution to recognize hand motions?

Answer 1

The only main difference between the Kinect for Windows and the Kinect for Xbox 360 is the range. Kinect for Windows has Near Mode. There is no difference in processing, or internal hardware except for Near Mode. See this question for some more exact details, but for what you are trying to achieve the Kinect for Xbox 360 will work fine.