Opening the world of OpenNI and the Kinect SDK

Since the release of the Kinect, there's been a couple development "camps." Different SDK's, libraries, drivers, etc, none very compatible with the other. One of those camps was the OpenNI camp.

But times are a changing! With the recent release of OpenNI v2, you can now use it with the Kinect for Windows SDK too. So OpenNI apps will work, Kinect for Windows SDK app's will work. No more driver madness!

You'd think getting this all to work would be hard? Well Yeouf Tan makes it look pretty easy, providing instructions and a video to get you all setup...

Guideline How to Install OpenNI 2.0 + Nite 2.0 + Kinect SDK 1.6 + windows 7 32/64 bit

YOUTUBE GUIDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5uTH3S9P9g

Kinect Installation Guide Document[ View / Download]
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3e4_6C5_YOjcmZpak12Q2MyZHM/edit 

Step 1
Download File Required

Kinect SDK 1.6 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/developer-downloads.aspx

OpenNI 2.0  32bits / 64bits
http://www.openni.org/openni-sdk/

Nite 2.0
http://www.openni.org/files/nite/

Step 2
a. Install Kinect for Windows SDK
b. Install OpenNI 2.0 SDK  32bits / 64bits
c. Install  Nite 2.0

Step 3
Run NiViewer.exe for Testing.  It will be located at
64bits
~ (OpenNI ) C:\Program Files\OpenNI2\Samples\Bin
~ (Prime Sensor) C:\Program Files\PrimeSense\NiTE2\Samples\Bin
32bits
~(OpenNI )  C:\Program Files (x86) \OpenNI2\Samples\Bin
~ (Prime Sensor) C:\Program Files (x86) \PrimeSense\NiTE2\Samples\Bin

Note : This installation Tutorial is just for education references use...

Project Information URL: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/kinectsdk/thread/bae80fb0-fce5-468e-a292-fe46381af3e5

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