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Joao Victor
Joao Victor

Reputation: 1171

Driver or dll to simulate physical kinect sensor

For the kinect development, is there a driver or dll that replaces the physical kinect sensor by using a web cam or something? Or you have to have a kinect sensor? I don't have a x360, and i'm not too fond of the idea to buy just a kinect sensor...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1172

Answers (3)

EdgarT
EdgarT

Reputation: 1088

Other solution is using Kinect Studio, but someone else have to record the streaming from a real kinect, but the size files are around GBytes.

Upvotes: 0

Liam McInroy
Liam McInroy

Reputation: 4366

You have to have a Kinect sensor to develop with Kinect (if you want to test your programs), And like Quentin said it has much more than a VGA camera. It has a IR sensor, and 4 microphones. Also you don't need an Xbox to develop with Kinect, you can make desktop applications and windows games using XNA. If you end up developing with Kinect, I suggest you use the Kinect SDK with C#. Hope this helps!

Upvotes: -1

mankoff
mankoff

Reputation: 2301

The libfreenect library includes fakenect that lets you simulate a Kinect. You have to have a data set collected with the libfreenect 'record' program (plenty are available to download) and then you can test your algorithms offline.

Upvotes: 5

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