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PravinCG
PravinCG

Reputation: 7708

Run official Kinect SDK on iMac

I would like to create my Kinect development environment and am contemplating using iMac as the box with Windows 7 installed as dual boot and/or parallels.

Has anyone tried this configuration earlier and does it work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2243

Answers (2)

user430788
user430788

Reputation: 2241

You might want to look at native OSX Kinect development using OpenKinect

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started

If you don't want to have to write all the image processing code yourself, and are working in C#, you could start with the Accord library:

http://accord-net.origo.ethz.ch/

Upvotes: 1

davidbates
davidbates

Reputation: 1792

Running Bootcamp(dual boot) works with windows 7/8 Parallels does not. I have a macpro 1,1 and a mac air both work with bootcamp(dual boot).

The only thing that could cause it not to work is the USB configuration. Kinect requires that it be connected to a USB host controller and not a hub. I believe all of the iMac's USB ports are host ports so I don't believe this to be an issue. If you use the Kinect Sensor Chooser control built into the WPFViewers sample app it will tell you if that particular problem arises (insufficient bandwidth).

Parallels will not work with the SDK at the time of this writing due to driver. Kinect is not an official USB device and the driver requires direct communication with the Kinect. I hoped that this would be resolved with the official Kinect for Windows hardware but alas it was not.

Upvotes: 2

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