An addon for the new Kinect For Windows V2 sensor. Based on the excellent work by the https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2 team ( @JoshBlake @floe and @christiankerl plus others )
New:
- Supports multiple kinects.
- Optimized for openFrameworks release 0.9.0
- Uses OpenCL based decoding by default = much faster decoding
- Less crashes on startup and shutdown
- Supports both the early beta device and the new retail device.
- Supports
linux64, see detailed installation instructions here. - Supports
linuxarmv7l, see detailed installation instructions here.
Notes:
- Kinect needs to have flashed firmware ( this currently needs to be done on Windows 8 )
- Requires a USB 3 port on machine.
- For OS X if you have issues connecting to the device, check in the System Profiler -> USB. If the Nui Sensor is not listed under SuperSpeed, unplug the power to the device and replug it in, without disconnecting the USB cable.
- Only tested on OS X though Win / Nix should be possible too with patched libusb ( see: https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2/blob/master/depends/README.depends.txt )
- If you have the ofxKinect ( v1 ) addon in your project remove the ofxKinect libusb lib and use the one that comes with this repo instead.
- //On OS X if you are not using the example project. Make sure to add OpenCL.framework to the Link Binary With Library Build Phase and also change the line in Project.xcconfig to OTHER_LDFLAGS =
$(OF_CORE_LIBS) $ (OF_CORE_FRAMEWORKS) -framework OpenCL
Huge thanks to @christiankerl for a lot of the recent changes that made this work well on OS X.