On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Nicolas Burrus wrote: > Nicolas Burrus from Occipital here (we make Structure Sensor: > http://structure.io). Structure Sensor is indeed currently based > around a few PrimeSense-designed components, but it is a new > electrical design with many new features, and we manage the > manufacturing ourselves. Of course, PrimeSense components won’t be > available to us forever, but we have worked with PrimeSense to make > sure we have everything needed to keep shipping Structure Sensors and > meet current and future orders. It is crucial to our own success that > we keep innovating and making sure Structure Sensors are available for > a long time. Components may change, but the mission is the same. > > Even though a lot of our work goes into providing iOS compatibility, > we did a lot in the electrical design to make it work great on other > platforms (We even made a special USB cable for other platforms since > Apple uses Lightning). We also made it robot-friendly by putting 4 > screw holes on the bottom of the sensor, and providing CAD to help > people make attachments. We also plan to release a PCL grabber for > Structure Sensor, and to have open source drivers (not OpenNI) for > Linux, Android, Windows, and OS X. If anyone wants to help out with > those open source efforts, let me know! > > We will also make a fork of OpenNI2 and already have basic OpenNI2 > support for the sensor when used with the USB cable. (So, you can > already use Structure Sensor with existing apps using OpenNI2, > including ROS. However, we didn’t test on Linux yet, but it should > work.) Long term, if OpenNI development remains active, we will keep > Structure working with OpenNI. If not, then we will focus our efforts > more on Structure Sensor open source drivers instead. Until you guys get bought as well... or Apple changes their mind patent- or component-wise. This move of Apple has cast a great uncertainty on any Primesense derived technology or company. Nevertheless, I'm ordering one or two sensors. Primesense had the best technology for that price... Peter > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Arkapravo Bhaumik > wrote: >> Thanks ! but this entire episode leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Subduing a >> glorious technology in order to fill their coffers. >> ᐧ >> >> >> On 27 February 2014 22:44, Piyush wrote: >>> >>> Xtions don't work with libfreenect (directly) or its ROS wrapper >>> freenect_camera. However, I believe openni_camera should continue to work >>> for the next 1-2 years, as long as the license for openni's existing >>> open-source code does not get changed. >>> >>> Piyush >> >> >> -- >> Arkapravo Bhaumik >> >> >> http://mobotica.blogspot.in/p/head.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users