Free Kinect UI Hand Cursors

I am proud to make freely available a pair of left and right hand cursors for use in Kinect user interfaces. Please feel free to use them in any way you want.







This set contains:

• PNG small left hand with drop shadow and transparency
• PNG small right hand with drop shadow and transparency
• PNG small circle drop shadow and transparency
• PNG large left hand with transparency
• PNG large right hand with transparency
• Photoshop CS5 document with all original designs

DOWNLOAD THE CURSOR SET (Zip Archive)

I have been doing work with the Kinect since the Kinect For Windows commercial SDK was released around February. I have been surprised that no one has posted hand cursors online (that I have been able to find anyway).

If you haven't already, you should check out the human interaction guidelines that Microsoft released with the 1.5 SDK just a few weeks ago. Using these cursors you can incorporate your own hand icons, just like the guidelines allude to.

How Were These Icons Made?

Basically I just traced my own hands in dark black marker, scanned the drawing, then traced them using the bezier curves in Photoshop. I recognize that these would be better suited in a vector format, or better yet for Windows Presentation Foundation applications, in an MXML format. However, these were quick to make and fit my own development requirements nicely.

Have fun!