Kinect For Windows & Maceffective Curriculum Ideas

23-04-2021 admin

How to calibrate:

Kinect is Microsoft's motion sensor that works as an add-on for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One gaming consoles. The accessory works by providing a Natural User Interface (NUI) that allows users to. Helo, I am still struggling to simply set up my kinect to this nuc thing i bought my goal is: simply set up a WINDOWS kinect on a windows 10 pro environment I tried with ubuntu first but got weird errors with receiving data so I gave up. After installing windows 10 I plugged the kinect and pointed the device into the inf folder/ (note that windows automatically points for audio and video to. For more information about the Kinect Sensor for Windows and Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0, see Meet Kinect for Windows. Status Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available. This zip file is not the Kinect for Windows SDK V1, it is in fact the samples files, including the dependencies dlls that are referenced in the next video. Last modified Feb 11, 2012 at 1:20PM. Our software library provides a free download of Kinect Mocap Plug-in 1.21.2119.1. Our built-in antivirus checked this download and rated it as virus free. The latest version of the software is supported on PCs running Windows 7/8/10, 32-bit. This program is a product of Reallusion Inc.

Automatic Calibration:

Spawn trackers by clicking on Spawn Trackers
Click Show/Hide Skeleton Tracking and ensure the Kinect can track you.

You must stand around 3 meters (9 feet) away from the sensor for tracking to work properly!

Turn off the tracking preview once you've ensure it's working.
Click the checkbox labelled Enable Automatic Calibration
Click on Begin Calibration then stand still while looking in the direction of the Kinect.
4 countdowns of 3 seconds each will appear on the calibration button. after each countdown move to a slightly different spot in your room.
On the last countdown, just make sure to look straight forward in the direction of the Kinect.
You're done!

Manual Calibration:

Spawn trackers by clicking on Spawn Trackers
Click Show/Hide Skeleton Tracking and ensure the Kinect can track you.

You must stand around 3 meters (9 feet) away from the sensor for tracking to work properly!

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Turn off the tracking preview once you've ensure it's working.
Click on Begin Calibration

Try not to move around too much while calibrating.

Close out of the SteamVR dashboard by clicking outside of it.
Use the trackpads/thumbsticks on your VR controllers to move the trackers around. Align only the hip tracker to your waist.
Press the grip on your right controller to switch between position and rotation calibration. Do this as many times as you need until you've gotten calibration to a good point.
Use the right controller's trackpad/thumbstick to rotate the trackers until they are parallel to your body.

You can hold the left controller's grip to make more fine-tuned adjustments.

If trackers aren't following you; E.g. walking forward makes the trackers walk to the left. Use the left controller's touchpad/joystick to rotate the trackers until they line up to your movements. Try taking a few steps to make sure.
Press triggers on both of VR controllers to confirm and save calibration.
You're done!

FAQ

How do I track my head and hands?
You can't. This program was made for leg and hip tracking only. if you want to cook up a DIY VR setup, you're gonna need to buy Driver4VR.

What makes KinectToVR so much better than Driver4VR?
It's free and it takes less CPU to run. it has '60FPS' tracking, can despawn trackers in the middle of a game to get out of fullbody tracking, and most of all you can turn around without your body becoming mashed potatoes.

Can I use multiple Kinect sensors at once?
No, never. for many technical reasons, this isn't achievable while retaining our sanity. And anyway, you can achieve spinning around with a single Kinect.

Where is Sharky?
Hooray Sharky has in fact, not succumbed to COVID-19. Refer to the announcements channel on Discord. We don’t know where she is. I’d assume we would know if she died. But in her last update video and on Discord she mentioned going to university. I’ve personally seen people go off the grid for multiple YEARS when going to uni or college in the past. So, uhh, probably having a splitting headache in a dorm doing assignments and getting drunk with mates.

About system requirements
KinectToVR itself can be launched on Windows 8.1/7 if you try hard enough. But the installer is built for Windows 10 only. Considering Windows 7 is unsupported and 8.1 is nearing EOL, we are not going to be developing for these versions. As for Linux support, K2EX depends on the Microsoft Kinect SDK and it's native Windows drivers, unless some insane soul were to rewrite KinectToVR to use opensource alternatives including the skeleton tracking, it's most likely never going to run on Linux, not even emulated.
Just about every headset has been tested with K2EX, Vive, Vive Cosmos, Quest, Quest 2, ALVR, Oculus Link, Virtual Desktop. They all work, as well as Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The K2EX driver doesn't care what your actual headset is, it just makes trackers.
Nearly everyone will be using Kinect for Xbox. But that doesn't stop Kinect for Windows V1 and V2 from working. You'll just need to tell the installer to install for the corresponding model of Kinect for Xbox. Kinect Azure DK is based on a very different system and SDK and as such is incompatible with K2EX. You can use Aria's k4a_openvr to use it for FBT. It does use quite a bit of your GPU though!
Kinect for Xbox doesn't actually end in a normal USB connector despite actually being based on USB. The connector provides 12 volts of power and USB. The adapter turns this into a wall wart and a USB connector. You can find them realtively cheaply on eBay or Amazon by searching for 'kinect 360 adapter' or 'kinect one adapter'. Kinect for Windows doesn’t need an adapter as it ends in USB already.
Xbox One Kinect is very demanding when it comes to USB bandwidth, and it's also very picky about controllers. You can use USBTreeView to see what USB controllers you have on your PC and what's connected to them. If you seem to be having connectivity issues or are unsure, feel free to ask us on Discord.
This is important, if you have a Vive, Vive Pro or Valve Index, you should stay away from the Xbox One Kinect because it interferes with lighthouses, making your headset and controllers stop tracking. Xbox 360 Kinect has nearly the same tracking quality and won't cause these issues.

other bits

What people call “Playspace Mover” is actually Space Drag from OpenVR Advanced Settings. Asap ferg always strive and prosper download version.
An addon for SteamVR that contains incredibly useful stuff.

If you're playing VRChat, and you want to launch into fullbody while in-game but are in an invite-only instance. You can use VRChat Rejoin Tool to launch the game back into the last world you were in as if you launched it from the VRChat Web UI.

This example shows how to obtain the data available from Kinect for Windows V1 sensor using Image Acquisition Toolbox:

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Utility Functions

In order the keep this example as simple as possible, some utility functions for working with the Kinect for Windows metadata have been created. These utility functions include the skeletalViewer function which accepts the skeleton data, color image and number of skeletons as inputs and displays the skeleton overlaid on the color image

See What Kinect for Windows Devices and Formats are Available

The Kinect for Windows has two sensors, an color sensor and a depth sensor. To enable independent acquisition from each of these devices, they are treated as two independent devices in the Image Acquisition Toolbox. This means that separate VIDEOINPUT object needs to be created for each of the color and depth(IR) devices.

Acquire Color and Depth Data

In order to acquire synchronized color and depth data, we must use manual triggering instead of immediate triggering. The default immediate triggering suffers from a lag between streams while performing synchronized acquisition. This is due to the overhead in starting of streams sequentially.

Set the FramesPerTrigger property of the VIDEOINPUT objects to '100' to acquire 100 frames per trigger. In this example 100 frames are acquired to give the Kinect for Windows sensor sufficient time to start tracking a skeleton.

Kinect For Windows & Maceffective Curriculum Ideas

Configure Skeletal Tracking

The Kinect for Windows sensor provides different modes to track skeletons. These modes can be accessed and configured from the VIDEOSOURCE object of the depth device. Let's see how to enable skeleton tracking.

The properties on the depth source object that control the skeletal tracking features are TrackingMode, SkeletonToTrack and BodyPosture properties on the VIDEOSOURCE.

TrackingMode controls whether or not skeletal tracking is enabled and, if it is enabled, whether all joints are tracked, ‘Skeleton’, or if just the hip position is tracked, ‘Position’. Setting TrackingMode to ‘off’ (default) disables all tracking and reduces the CPU load.

The ‘BodyPosture’ property determines how many joints are tracked. If ‘BodyPosture’ is set to ‘Standing’, twenty joints are tracked. If it is set to ‘Seated’, then ten joints are tracked.

The SkeletonToTrack property can be used to selectively track one or two skeletons using the 'SkeletonTrackingID'. The currently valid values for 'SkeletonTrackingID' are returned as a part of the metadata of the depth device.

Access Skeletal Data

The skeleton data that the Kinect for Windows produces is accessible from the depth device as a part of the metadata returned by GETDATA. The Kinect for Windows can track the position of up to six people in view and can actively track the joint locations of two of the six skeletons. It also supports two modes of tracking people based on whether they are standing or seated. In standing mode, the full 20 joint locations are tracked and returned; in seated mode the 10 upper body joints are returned. For more details on skeletal data, see the MATLAB documentation on Kinect for Windows adaptor.

We randomly choose the 95th frame to visualize the image and skeleton data.