How can I connect kinect 1414 to mac as a camera

Land Lin's icon

Hi.

I'm a freshman in max/MSP, and I'm learning how to use max/MSP to make some interactive music pieces.

My teacher gave me a homework to do,
and the first job is connect the kinect 1414 to my macbook pro as a camera ,
then I can use it with jitter object in max/MSP.

Is there anyone had some tutorial about how to drive a kinect in mac OS(10.12)as a camera?

And I have searched for the solution in google, I have knew that there are something called OpenNI or so maybe I need to use. But I'm totally can't understand what is that mean(crying orz).

Can anyone help me? Thank you very very very very very much!!!!

ygreq's icon

Just install windows in Bootcamp. And use dp.kinect (with a 27Eur license)

From what I know OSX does not support kinect anymore

marker's icon

dp.kinect is your best option but if your stuck with 'mac only' you can Install the MvA (Max for the visual Arts) package. In there there are some good example patches. (These are only for kinect 1) And install the freenect external 64bit version if your in Max 8 (see forum) https://cycling74.com/forums/jit-freenect-grab-on-64-bit

Land Lin's icon

YGREQ and MARKER
Thank you very much for your reply. I will try both way you said.
http://blog.nelga.com/setup-microsoft-kinect-on-mac-os-x-10-9-mavericks/
Do you have seen this website? I didn't know if his way work or not, do I worth to have a try?

ygreq's icon

Hey! Just try it. But let me remind you that post is from 5 years ago. A lot of things have changes since then. In 2013 I did an installation with kinect v1 on OSX. It stopped working on newer OSX systems.

Good luck

yaniki's icon

Try this.

jit.freenect.grab.zip
application/zip 69.14 KB
jit.freenect.grab

KC Pnn's icon

Hi! Here's something you should try.
https://jmpelletier.com/freenect/
I use this library to use Kinect on my mac, and it works really well.

Land Lin's icon

YGREQ

I have tried that post yesterday, everything can be setup well in my 10.14.4, but I didn't connect kinect to my mac to test if it will work or not. I will try it this afternoon. Thank you for your reply. :-)

Land Lin's icon

YANIKI

Thank you very much for your help.
But I'm really new to max/MSP, ORZ``````
It's that what I need to do is patch the folder you sent to me and use it as a object?

yaniki's icon

It is an object handling Kinect and example patch. Should work when Max is running in 64bit mode. Object and patch should be in the same folder. Kinect should be connected before you start the patch.

Land Lin's icon

YANIKI

Thank you very much, I can use the patch and work perfectly.
Do you know jit.openni ? I downloaded its .mxo files from https://hidale.com/jit-openni/, but I don't know how to use.

yaniki's icon

I have not used openni for years, so I can't help you with this.

Land Lin's icon

YANIKI

Thank you for your reply, now I can use freenect to receive information from Kinect. My homework is done.
Thank you very mush.