OpenNI + Kinect (getting set up on Windows)

 

 

I have recently been hacking around with a kinect camera + OpenNI + PrimeSense NITE components and initially it was quite challenging to get the software bits and pieces installed correctly. I got it working but then needed to rebuild my PC, soooo……

Since I didn’t find a package which carries out the whole thing, and the prospect of carrying out these repetitive tasks again prompted me to create a program which does most of the hard work on Windows.

Most of it is based on instructions from

http://www.studentguru.gr/blogs/vangos/archive/2011/01/20/how-to-successfully-install-kinect-windows-openni-nite.aspx

but I couldn’t get this to work so also used

http://pushypanda.blogspot.com/2011/01/kinecting.html

and an installer from here

http://code.google.com/p/kinemote/downloads/detail?name=SensorKinect-Win32-5.0.0.exe&can=2&q=

So, just in case it helps someone else here it is….

http://cid-4f1b7368284539e5.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/KinectInstaller/KinectInstall.zip

Instructions:

Please uninstall any related installations before commencing..

Unzip KinectInstall.zip and run KinectInstall.exe.

Then plug your Kinect camera into a USB port on your computer and try to run some of the demos which are installed with OpenNI and NITE. Hopefully they will work!

(Disclaimer : Use at your own risk.)

This is what it does;

This program will automate the installs for setting up a kinect camera with OpenNI and Prime Sense NITE. It will install current (26.01.2011) stable binaries from here

OpenNI framework

http://www.openni.org/downloadfiles/2-openni-binaries

PrimeSense OpenNI-compliant components

http://www.openni.org/downloadfiles/12-openni-compliant-middleware-binaries

and

Sensor Kinect

http://code.google.com/p/kinemote/downloads/detail?name=SensorKinect-Win32-5.0.0.exe&can=2&q=