[ros-users] [PCL-users] New drivers

[Nicholas Butko]

Radu, 

I'm a little confused about OpenNI. It seems like a library for "natural interaction", which I take to mean "interpreting rgbd data and getting high level output". But it also includes drivers? Are the drivers separable from the openni library? How is the code organized?

It is disappointing that OpenNI doesn't support OSX out of the box. I looked a bit yesterday at trying to see what is needed to compile OpenNI for OSX, and it doesn't seem like too much -- the code is well factored around operating system specifics, and the linux code is embarrassingly close to just working on OSX. However, the folks at prime sense might have a better idea.  If it was as simple as things like replacing clock_gettime with gettimeofday, I imagine they would have done it already. 

Anyway, I wanted to take a stab at getting the kinect up and running on OSX, and I'd like to have an idea about the best way to go about it. Should I focus on openni, or openni_camera, or nite, or some portion or some combination? 

Or should I focus more on the kinect package and forget about OpenNI entirely?

--Nick 

On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:01 AM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:

> As my colleagues mentioned earlier, we are happy to announce complete ROS support for the new OpenNI (www.openni.org) 
> interface! You can check our progress at www.ros.org/wiki/ni. Feel free to send any questions you might have and join 
> our growing OpenNI community at openni-dev at googlegroups.com!
> 
> There's some concerns about whether we'll be going back and forth between our initial ROS kinect efforts and OpenNI. To 
> clarify this, we're 100% dedicated on working with and improving the OpenNI interface right now, which means all our 
> future demos and code releases will most likely be based on the new "ni" ROS stack.
> 
> Please expect a 0.1 release tomorrow for the new OpenNI stack, with complete support for Kinect, with nodelets, and PCL 
> launch files -- similar to our previous releases. In the meantime, you can obviously give it a try from our github repo.
> 
> Of course, this effort wouldn't be possible without the help of many of our colleagues at Willow Garage, but most 
> importantly people in the ROS community, who have pioneered the early efforts, and have built impressive demos that are 
> still virally being watched around the globe. We thank all of you and hope to continue our collaboration in the future!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Radu.
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