Nodes for using the Kinect are shipping with vvvvs addonpack.

With the addonpack installed type kinect in the nodebrowser to see a list of all available nodes dealing with it. Note that most nodes come in two versions:

• Microsoft
• OpenNI

Those relate to two different drivers they are based on. Depending on which version you want to use you need to install the following:

OpenNI

• OpenNI Binaries (32bit)
• OpenNI Compliant Middleware Binaries (32bit)

which you can get from here: http://www.openni.org/Downloads/OpenNIModules.aspx

now depending on hardware used get according drivers:

• Asus Xtion: OpenNI Compliant Hardware Binaries (32bit): from the same link above
• Kinect: SensorKinect binaries (32bit): from https://github.com/avin2/SensorKinect/tree/unstable/Bin

The current version of the OpenNI plugins was tested to run with:

• OpenNI 1.5.2.23 (32bit, stable, redist edition)
• NITE 1.5.2.21 (32bit, stable, redist edition)
• SensorKinect091 5.1.0.25 (32bit)

Microsoft

Available natively in vvvv from beta27.1 thanks to vux, the required drivers can be found here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/9/9/F99791F2-D5BE-478A-B77A-830AD14950C3/KinectSDK-v1.0-beta2-x64.msi
For now it works only on 64bit systems.
A version for the final SDK is in the works by vux and will come soon.

With OpenCV

If you want to hack on Kinect with OpenCV, then check opencv-plugin-(alpha) for a plugin set which works with OpenNI and allows threaded OpenCV operations (by elliotwoods).

Random Kinect Links

• Interpreting Depth Sensor Values by Matt Fisher
• OpenNI
• Demos by Nicolas Burrus
• Kinect Color - Detph Camera Calibration
• Microsoft Kinect SDK Depth - Good info on the depth format and how the depth image histogram works