Any way to physically move the Kinect camera? - kinect

Really new to kinect. I am trying to read up material I find. I found technical spec and the .net API documentation, but could figure out if what I am trying to do is possible:
Can I instruct the kinect to physically move the cameras? (I want to view other people in the room for example).
Edited: I am using the MS Kinect SDK.
Thank you

You can use NuiCamera.ElevationAngle to set the elevation angle of kinect camera. Yea, as mentioned above answer, you can only move up and down.
This is the example in Visual C#
I create a slider to get the value. Kinect Mortor is limited to -27 to 27 degree of rotation only.
<Slider Value = "{Binding ElevationAngle, Mode =TwoWay}" Height="171" Interval="1" IsSnapToTickEnabled="True" Margin="914,536,284,45" Maximum="27" Minimum="-27" Name="slider_tilt" Orientation="Vertical" SmallChange="1" TickPlacement="TopLeft" Width="38" />
Create a button called btnSetTilt and under the button click event, feed the value of slider to Elevation angle. That's it.
private void btnSetTilt_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
//Set angle to slider_tilt value
nui.NuiCamera.ElevationAngle = (int)slider_tilt.Value;
}

Using OpenKinect you can control it with
public setMotorPosition(float)
With the Microsoft Kinect SDK for Windows you can use
NuiCameraSetElevation
which is limited to 1 call per second and no more than 15 calls per 20 second period.
The motor and gear are not meant for frequent use.

You can but only up and down, it wont work moving side to side. And Roger Lindsjo has the same explanation as I do. But just wanted to clarify.

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