Open Kinect for Processing

This repository is for for using the Microsoft Kinect sensor with Processing. It uses the open source drivers from the libfreenect and libfreenect2 projects.

Documentation and tutorial

For more, read this online tutorial or check out the javadocs.

Kinect v1 Requirements

• Kinect v1 (supported versions??)
• Kinect v1 power adapter

Linux

Requirements? sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev

Windows.

• Use Zadig to install the libusbK driver for each device you wish to use. This includes installing the libusbK for all the kinect v1 drivers listed on Zadig GUI.
• If you got the error message 'Isochronous transfer error: 1', you should try downgrade the libusbK using Older Zadig Version

Kinect v2 Requirements

• USB 3.0 Host Controller (NEC Corporation USB 3.0, Intel Chipset)
• Minimum Mac OS X 10.9
• Windows 8 64 bit support
• Kinect v2

Kinect v2 additional software

• For Windows 8, Follow the the installation of the libusk driver.
  • First install the Kinect v2 Windows SDK then change the USB 3.0 drivers properties to libusbK using Zadig.
• No longer need to external install Turbo Jpeg for Mac.