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Topic	Why did the Kinect fail?
MacadamianNut3 01/18/18 12:39:15 PM #40:	Yeah pretty much that. I think my group uses Asus sensors now and ROS almost makes any RGBD camera plug and play so the Kinect isn't king anymore Microsoft looked like they got the message from the people who reverse engineered the Kinect 1 when they announced an API and software suite for the Kinect 2...but then they made it so it worked only on Windows when most of the community that used the Kinect 1 for projects used Linux.... I used the Kinect 2 myself for my last project in grad school (because of its skeleton tracking and voice recognition API) and it was a pain in the ass to get a bridge to Linux set up because I am not one of those hacky types of people --- Roll Tide & Go Irish <cite>MacadamianNut3 posted [p:894300826] in Why did th... [t:76215285]...</cite> <quote>Yeah pretty much that. I think my group uses Asus sensors now and ROS almost makes any RGBD camera plug and play so the Kinect isn't king anymore Microsoft looked like they got the message from the people who reverse engineered the Kinect 1 when they announced an API and software suite for the Kinect 2...but then they made it so it worked only on Windows when most of the community that used the Kinect 1 for projects used Linux.... I used the Kinect 2 myself for my last project in grad school (because of its skeleton tracking and voice recognition API) and it was a pain in the ass to get a bridge to Linux set up because I am not one of those hacky types of people --- Roll Tide & Go Irish</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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