I talked to softkinetic and they have no linux support at the moment.

> Have you considered Softkinetic's sensors and middleware? They have a
> short-range sensor (same hardware as the Creative Senz3D,
>
http://www.softkinetic.com/Store/tabid/579/ProductID/6/language/en-US/Default.aspx
)
> and software to do skeleton tracking (
> http://www.softkinetic.com/products/iisumiddleware.aspx).
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus
>
>
> >
> > I got the Structure.io camera to work with NITE 2 for skeleton tracking
> > but it also doesn't work as well up close as I hoped.
> >
> > There's no skeleton tracking for the Creative Labs Senz3D yet so that's
> > out. I've looked at some other lesser known RGB-D cameras and they
didn't
> > have linux support yet.
> >
> > So I'm left with a single option. The Kinect for Windows 2 camera. The
> > camera is amazing and the SDK blows away what could be done with NITE.
> > But... it's Windows 8 only. The open source KFW drivers are just not
there
> > yet. No skeleton support, etc.
> >
> > The options I see are:
> >
> > a) Run ROS entirely under Windows 8 though there doesn't seem to be very
> > good support.
> > b) Run Ubuntu/Hydro in Virtualbox and send messages (Kinect quaternions)
> > through the virtualbox api and turn that into a ROS message.
> > c) Run ROS in Windows as a slave node to a master ROS node running in
> > Ubuntu.
> >
> > If I just want to run ROS Hydro in Windows for sending some Kinect
> > quaternion/TF frames over the network to Ubuntu/Hydro for the rosqt, etc
> > heavy lifting is that possible?
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > --
> > Chris Jones
> > Overthrow Robotics
> > chris.jones@overthrowrobotics.com
> > 310-400-0256
> >