Kinect to izzy

Skulpture

Urrr this?

http://www.nonpolynomial.com/2011/06/16/console-controls-usage-and-the-kinect-sdk/

Top hit in google for nono was 'products for hair removal, acne clearance and skin care....' haha! (Made me laugh out loud anyway!)

mark

OK, I've got a little present for you all -- a totally "unofficial" release. But if you accept my gift, you must accept the following conditions:

1) If it doesn't work, **you won't complain at all**

2) If it doesn't yet have the features you need, **you won't ask for them** (at least not yet.)

Got it? Do you promise? OK...

Attached you'll find a little actor that directly pulls the depth image from the Kinect, and brings it into Isadora as a normal 'video' image. I finished this yesterday, as it's part of my research for my new piece (working title SWARM) which I'm currently developing at La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland. For this plugin, I'll be releasing the source code soon so that intrepid coders can take it in other directions if they like.

To install, put the plugin in this folder:

/Library/Application Support/TroikaTronix/Isadora Plugins

You **_are_** allowed to tell me if it works or not for you, and that it's great, etc. ;-)

So give it a try if the function it provides seems useful.

Best Wishes,

Mark

P.S. Mac only at the moment... sorry!

1df439-kinect-depth.izzyplug.zip

Michel

Not showing up in Isadora 1.3.0f25 or f24.

Not complaining just feedback :-)

vanakaru

Yes, same here(also1.30f26).

mark

Hmmmm.... well, I had to install a bunch of weird stuff to be able to compile this. I'll have to try it on a "fresh" machine to see if it works. I'll let you know.

Best Wishes,

Mark

Contexter

@Skulpture Isadora User "Nono" - do a site search.

Skulpture

Same; 1.30f26 also.

Lanz

Its working for me!

OS X 10.7.5, 2.4GHz Intel Core i7

Izzy, 1.3.0f25

fantastic! no more messing around to get it in! plug and play!

Thanks mark!

Im sure everyone here has looked at these things before however i just found this book preview thats compiled all the things that have so far been achieved with the kinect, thought it might be interesting.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/112155838/Kinect-Hacks-Tips-Tools-for-Motion-and-Pattern-Detection

Best,

Lanz

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vanakaru

@Lanz you must have something installed that I do not have to make this happen. I tried boot from 10.7.3 as well and no luck.

Lanz

@vanakaru i must admit i have been throwing around so much kinect stuff lately to get things working i couldn't say which bits are getting this to work.

vanakaru

I thought so. So maybe I should install everything I can find about kinect. Probably there is some library needed. but first I shall try to boot to the state I had in summer when I messed with kinect too. Did not get too far though.

Skulpture

Since we are talking about kinect's.... how interesting is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSBDY0RuhS4

monsieurmeus

That's fun ! let's have the phone ringing & vibrating on the kinect all the time !

Skulpture

hahaha!! Good idea!

fifou

Hi Folks,
Where did you get Isadora 1.30f26 ?!

Cheers
Philippe

mark

So I'm trying to determine what packages you need to install to get this to work. Basically, the way I did it is to do a bunch of nasty and arcane unix style installs for libusb and OpenNI and others. A wonderful colleague called Andrew Sempere who is working here in Lausanne has a package that installs his Kinect app along with the required libraries and drivers using a normal installer. He offered to modify the installer to just install only the required libraries, and not his app. So I'll work with him to try to get that to happen in the next days. My suspicion is that it worked for Lanz because he had this stuff installed.

If you are really dying to use this, you can bite the bullet and install the packages required by following instructions on the page given below. But let me warn you that I have **no idea** **how to uninstall this stuff** once you've added it to your system. It shouldn't cause any trouble, but please consider that you're installing low level drivers, etc., that have the potential to cause unforeseen problems.

**INSTRUCTIONS:** http://developkinect.com/resource/mac-os-x/install-openni-nite-and-sensorkinect-mac-os-x

**NOTE 1:** You can stop before the step of installing NITE -- as this is not needed.)

**NOTE 2:** when installing libusb-devel, I had to do the following before it would work properly

sudo rm -f /opt/local/lib/libusb-1.0.0.dylib sudo port clean libusb sudo port install libusb +universal

Good luck!

Best Wishes,

Mark

mark

P.S. Why is the dude in the tracking video dressed like a ninja?

vanakaru

Thanks Mark. Following your instructions above I got it running great.

Lanz

using 1.30f26 with the Kinect Depth today continually froze up isadora so i reinstalled 1.3.0f24 and it worked like a dream. not sure why but i thought id mention it.

mickey

Two ore more kinects?

Hi out there!

Did anybody get 2 (ore even more) kinects running to isadora?
No skeltons needed - I would like to get the "ghosts" in better resolution (and a better/broader field of view 1280 by 480) for a panoramic backdrop scene.
Is this possible? would I need 2 pc's/ macmini's?

graceful for every hint!

cheers mickey

AND: HEY I' wish you: The very best year of all !!!