Kinect for windows (7)

edsonedge's icon

Now that windows is going to be issueing a SDK for kinect - and we already have the openNI drivers for kinect on windows

Could sombody, pretty please with sugar and sprinkled chocolate heroin on top; please make some objects for Max/Jitter on Windows

Sincerly. Eds

carsol's icon

hi...
that i know theres a couple of choices for max-win users..

OSCleton to track skeleton points that you receive in max via OSC
and
Kinect Virtual Camera, you get Zdepth image with jit.dx.grab...

all the process is after you...

good luck!

carsol's icon

about the virtual camera solution i've succesfully test with max this one:

edsonedge's icon

Ive been using the OSCeleton bridge, but didnt know about the virtual camera

Thanks alot :)

edsonedge's icon

I installed the bat file - and got a "installed successfully" message

but the grab object isnt showing anything

any suggestions?

FRid's icon

Did you follow this too?

It's necessary for the kinect to work.

FRid

BTW. Does anybody know if there has been a date set for the the sdk/drivers release? I keep my fingers crossed for xp but i have a feeling that's not gonna work.

edit: posted the wrong link. It's ok now.

edsonedge's icon

Yeah I already got all the drivers up , and OSCeleton is working fine in Max

Just cant get the grap object to show anything

carsol's icon

theres diferent drivers for kinect in windows...

i think you need to change it to use e2esoft... and if you want then use OSCleton you need roll back to the other drivers again...

edsonedge's icon

That´s a bummer

Wanted to use both :(

krodelabestiole's icon

hi

thanks to your advices ive been able to get depth image in max msp (windows) using these drivers https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/tree/ (inf are already there, no need to compile anything)

now ive got this rainbow image wich is quite prety but how could i get it back to a simple b&w plane so i can use a simple threshold (before those cv stuffs) ?

what jitter objects would i use ?
and is there a way to open dx.grab and get depth values (without going inte the settings menu)

thanks for your help !

krodelabestiole's icon

ok then

ive done this patch

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

it outputs a one plane float32 matrix
there's a little error when jitter cells value reach 1, before it get further
not that big trouble to me

krodelabestiole's icon
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

this one solve the == 1 problem :

im still looking for a way to get depth mode at startup

carsol's icon

Hi... I cant check your patch,, but did you manage to get oscleton and depth image with a virtual driver using the same kinect drivers?

Interesting question about changing camera settings from the patch... Maybe some jitter guru can bring light...

Thanks!