Saturday, 11 June 2011

X-box Kinect in Processing


to use X-box Kinect in Processing:

1) First, we need to download the Kinect driver for Windows:

Windows Driver/SDK Download:
http://codelaboratories.com/nui

or

Kinect Tutorial 3: Setting up OpenNI and NITE on Windows for Kinect:
http://www.kinecthacks.nl/kinect-tutorial-3-setting-up-openni-and-nite-on-windows-for-kinect/


2) Second, we need to download a library:

try the openkinect openkinect.org
by Daniel Shiffman
(At the moment, my library only works with Mac OS X (intel, 10.5 or 10.6 should both be ok)

to download:
http://www.shiffman.net/p5/kinect/


Simple "Average Point" tracking with Kinect in Processing from shiffman on Vimeo.





And here a Processing Library for Kinect on Windows:

CLNUI 4 Java (Kinect)

http://www.pixelnerve.com/v/2010/11/19/clnui-4-java-kinect/


a secret: the Vitamin (!)
http://www.pixelnerve.com/processing/libraries/vitamin/

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