Hi Chris,

I haven't tried it but there do appear to be ROS drivers for SoftKinetic
documented at: http://wiki.ros.org/softkinetic

Tully

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Chris Jones <
chris.jones@overthrowrobotics.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >
>
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