Yes, what you are doing is just grabbing the parsed data from the kinect. What the Open Kinect actually initializes is the kinect joystick, which emulates a joystick.
I have compiled a VI that takes the array from the Kinect and converts it into a bundle. I have included some example code here. This breaks out all of the coordinates, allowing for more advanced gestures.
We are personally working on a mecanum kinect drive block, which allows you to drive mecanum robots with the kinect.
Since I have already uploaded the Kinect to Cluster vi, here is the link to the download:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...7&d=1327516414