Messages

Hands

A Hands message is just two Hand messages with the header of the point cloud it came from.

thumb: index of which finger was determined to be the thumb. a negative number means no thumb was detected, (does not mean no fingers)
arm:
- in detecthands: points near, but not in the hand are clustered and marked as the arm. It is pretty accurate in giving the direction that the arm is facing.
- in detectskelhands: arm represents the skeleton's elbow.
palm: 6D pose of the palm (orientation may not be fully functional yet)
fingers: for each finger detected, the centroid is given. Because of how finger segmentation is done, this point will not always be the center of the finger, at least in the direction away from the palm.
state: Currently unused. Soon, when pointing is implemented, this will indicate what type of gesture is being made (ie: fist, peace, openpalm, etc.)

A Skeletons message is a list of Skeleton messages with a header.

joints The joints are pretty self explanatory. They are the 3d position of that joint, plus a confidence. Generally the joints are trusted if the confidence is > .5
id The id of the user.