Is it possible to emulate Kinect sensor (for usage with Kinect SDK), when the Kinect itself isn't plugged?
First I thought Kinect Studio does exactly what I wanted, but now it seems like Kinect Studio records data streams and can "feed" them to application, but is unable to emulate connection to the sensor. So at the moment I have a couple of .xed files recorded with Kinect Studio and I can't launch any Kinect-enabled apps without getting "Kinect sensor is not plugged in" or whatever message.
Is there any way around this? I have access to Kinect, but it's not at the same place I intend to write most of the code (and where I would very much like to run/debug it with recorded data)..
I would really appreciate any help.
P.S. Maybe I'm just using Kinect Studio somehow wrong and it actually can emulate Kinect connection (this is the best-case scenario, actually).
You need to feed the NUI driver with your recorded data to do that.
NUI-Natural User Interface - this thingy is what gets input from Kinect and give output of the skeletal mapping.
If I remember correct - you are in luck as NUI is open-source.. Search for OPEN-NI.
What you ask for is definitely possible but to get into the bits and bytes you will have to invest quite some time to be part of the Open-Ni community, this is not something that can be learned on the fly in a day or two.
And back to your question - Yes, it is possible to make the Kinect studio "think" there is a Kinect connected if you tinker with the driver. Have I tried it myself? no :)
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14382843/kinect-emulation-w-o-actual-device-plugged