Depth camera

Hadi's icon

Hello,

I'm searching for a new generation/model of depth camera/sensor which smoothly works with a jitter patch. Any clue? I used Kinect for a live depth processing project in 2017; now, I want to upgrade the gear to reinstall the project.

I found these three cameras (that are too expensive!), but not sure if they work with MAX.

D435if Depth Camera _ https://www.intelrealsense.com/
OpenCV AI Kit: zed-2 _ https://www.stereolabs.com/zed-2/
OpenCV AI Kit: OAK—D_https://store.opencv.ai/products/oak-d

Does anyone have experience using two depth cameras simultaneously? How can I define the input of two cameras to my patch?

Many thanks

hzd's icon

Hi.


I'm looking to get started with depth camera. Anyone using depth camera with a Mac and Max9?

thx

TFL's icon

If you want to use a Kinect 2 on an Apple silicon Mac, you can check out this updated version of jit.freenect2.

It works for me (Max 9), but you'll need to compile the external by yourself though.

Here is the original post in the Max Discord. The author is super reactive and helped me in the process.

Mathieu Chamagne's icon

Hi TFL

would you mind sharing your compiled version of this updated jit.freenect2 for Apple Silicon ?

I miserably failed at trying to compile it myself...

TFL's icon

Here it is Mathieu. I did it in June 2025, so it is missing quite a few commits from the original repo.

I hope it will work for you.

For some reason I got a jit.freenect2.mxo is too small notification when trying to upload the .mxo directly. Funnily, a (smaller) zipped version of it seems to do the trick.

jit.freenect2.mxo.zip
zip 25.63 KB


Mathieu Chamagne's icon

Thanks very much :-)

unfortunately, I get this error message :

jit.freenect2: unable to load object bundle executable: The bundle “jit.freenect2.mxo” couldn’t be loaded.

This external is really small, indeed...

maybe it requires some external dependencies?

Mathieu Chamagne's icon

I made another attempt at compiling... (this time with the help of an AI 'friend' 🙈)
...and this time I succeeded :-)

(I had to force the project to build for arm64..)

Here it is :

jit.freenect2.mxo.zip
zip 148.13 KB

TFL's icon

Ah maybe you had to codesign it locally since I don't have an Apple developer account.

Anyway, thanks for the new version, I will replace my older version with yours.

It is indeed a small external!