Easily get the Kinect V2 sensor's realtime skeleton data into openFrameworks on a Mac.
If you are used to using openFrameworks on a Mac, and all you want is skeletal data, this addon is for you.
For the foreseeable future, the Kinect V2 sensor runs only on Windows 8.1 using a USB3 port. There's no way around that, but what you can do is have a small, simple program on your Windows computer, which broadcasts to a Mac.
Then you can just leave Windows running and get back to doing the rest of your coding on a Mac. The Windows and Mac computers will of course have to be on the same network.
- On your Windows machine, download and run KinectV2-OSC.exe (based on this repo)
- Edit the file
ip.txtto specify the IP addresses you want to broadcast to (or ignore this step if you are broadcasting back to the same machine on127.0.0.1which is the default) - That will broadcast the Kinect's skeletal data across the network from Windows
- Over on your Mac, clone and run ofxKinectV2-OSC (this repo)
- Once you fire up the example, you should see a skeleton that looks a bit like you!
This is what you'll see on your Windows machine:
This is what you'll see on your Mac:
See the red and green hands? That's showing detection of open or closed hand states.
And the thin lines on the legs? That's where the bones are inferred (low confidence).
- ofxOSC to recieve messages - it's part of the openFrameworks core
- Tested against openFrameworks 0.8.4