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Focused on the `libfreenect` library for Microsoft Kinect, enabling the Kinect to used with Windows, Linux and Mac.

OpenKinect is a community of people making use of the Microsoft Kinect hardware for PCs and other devices. The communities primary focus, libfreenect, is a set of open source libraries that enable the Kinect to be used with Windows, Linux, and Mac.

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Kinect as a Webcam Ubuntu 12.04

Is there any known way to use the Kinect as a webcam inside a Linux environment, perhaps using openkinect to some capacity?
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Simplecv and openkinect blob detection issues

I am currently on a robotics team for my high school and my objective is to use our kinect to detect the balls in this year's game by using simplecv and openkinect. I am currently stuck on an issue that my mentors and I cannot seem to resolve. What…
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How can I lock a person who gives a particular gesture and might go out of sight in Kinect?

I'm making this program using Kinect SDK. I want to track the skeleton of a person who gives a particular gesture. I want to keep on tracking him even if he goes out of the sight of the kinect camera. Is there any way to do this using Kinect SDK or…
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Is it possible to create synthesized or modify existing .ONI files in OpenNI 2.x?

Is it possible to create synthesized or modify existing .oni files in OpenNI 2.x? I know it was possible in 1.x using MockDepthGenerator (based NiRecordSynthetic sample), but it looks like this functionality is no longer available in 2.0. Basically,…
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Many kinect devices and one PC

I want to monitor 3d activity on 15x15m scene from the top. Since kinect hanged on 5meters sees surface of approximately 4m/5m, I want to connect 9 kinects to one PC and read the signal from those devices to C or preferably python…
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Positional tracking using kinect - how to determine head position in closed 3d space

I suppose kinect standard way of usage is to put this device in some fixed position and let it do its calculation e.g. head tracking of someone which moves in front it. But my use case is different. What I need to do is change the frame of reference…
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measuring the distance from a point to another in meshlab for slam kinect data

I'm going to use openslam to reconstruct my room. The reconstructed data will be save in PLY or PCD format and view by meshlab. meshlab has a measuring tool for measuring the distance from one point to another. My question is will the measuring…
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Kinect hangs up suddenly after working pretty well a few seconds. How can I fix it?

I tried using "Kinect for Windows" on my Mac. Environment set-up seems to have gone well, but something seems being wrong. When I start some samples such as OpenNI-Bin-Dev-MacOSX-v1.5.4.0/Samples/Bin/x64-Release/Sample-NiSimpleViewer or others, the…
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Shorten Minimum Range for Kinect or Asus

I am planning on using a device such as the Microsoft Kinect or an Asus Xtion Pro for 3D imaging purposes and they are great on all specs except for the minimum range. Is there anyway to make the range shorter, either through software…
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Daniel Shiffman's Openkinect software with Kinect for Windows not running RGBDepth Example

I have tried just about everything for getting the Kinect for Windows to actually produce an image. I have downloaded Daniel Shiffman's Openkinect library and I have installed it as instructed, yet I get the message that no kinect devices are…
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invoking the mouse function of Open Gl using Kinect

I am creating an app in C++ (OpenGL) using Kinect. Whenever we click in OpenGL the function invoked is void myMouseFunction( int button, int state, int mouseX, int mouseY ) { } But can we invoke them using Kinect? Maybe we have to use the depth…
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OpenKinect: Cannot build RGBDemo

I am following the instructions given in the book "Hacking the Kinect" pages 15-16 (Apress 2011) to install the RGB Demo (version 0.5.0) on my system (32bit x86 machine running Xubuntu 12.04). I downloaded and extracted the demo's source and…
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How to solve linking issues with libusb in make file

I have been wrestling with cmake for hours upon end now but I am getting it to build make files now but I am struggling to get the make command to work properly. I believe it is and issue with my libusb links but I am pretty clueless. I am using the…
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libfreenect installation not building correctly with cmake

This may sound basic but I am really struggling to get this all working and have been at it for hours I have tried following the installation process on github but this way of installing i am finding very confusing and all the tutorials I come…
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How to install pylibfreenect2

I'm trying to follow instruction link and at the step python setup.py install I get following error: Do you know what I'm doing wrong? PS C:\Users\lukin\Downloads\pylibfreenect2-master\pylibfreenect2-master> python setup.py python :…
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