Requirements for Kinect programming

Question

I wish to program with the Kinect ToF camera, however I am not certain of the hardware and software requirements to do so. I have come across a number of articles/books that cov

Answer 1

1. There are two kind of Kinect Sensor: the Kinect Sensor for XBox and the Kinect Sensor for Windows.If you alreay have Xbox and its accessory Kinect Sensor for XBox,you can use it .If you want to develop for commercial ,you should buy a Kinect Sensor for Windows.The Kienct Sensor for Windows have some amazing features such as Near Model while Kinect Sensor for XBox didn't have. And the Kinect Sensor for Windows are more compatible with the Official Kinect SDK.

2. I develope Kinect application on Windows and the system minimum requirement are :

   • Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Embedded Standard 7, or Windows Embedded POSReady 7.
   • 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) processor
   • Dual-core 2.66-GHz or faster processor
   • Dedicated USB 2.0 bus
   • 2 GB RAM

   I am not familiar with other platform,but i thinks the hardware requirements are more or less same.

3. For drivers,as far as I know,there are two popular driver for Kinect sensor: Official Kinect SDK and Primesense OpenNI ,those two driver provide api that has their own characteristics,but there are some tips about which one should be best at some circumstances:

   • If you are want to develop Kinect application on Windows platform,I strongest suggest you use the newest Kinect SDKs for Windows 1.6.It has a plent of documentary and Demo int the DevelopToolKit ,and have Kinect Studio helps you to debug during application.The Channel9 website has a special block on Kinect development which has a lot of examples and ideas about Kinect development. Kinect SDKs for Windows 1.6 support the Windows 7/Windows 8 OS. The only drawback is that Kinect SDK only support Windows platform. But from the SDK 1.6,it supprot the windows runing on virtual machine such as Microsoft HyperV,VMWare and Parallels.

   • If you want to develop on other platform ,OpenNI maybe the best choice.