[ros-users] Confirmation on primesense

[Nathaniel Lewis]

You still need primesense's NITE software to do the skeleton tracking though right?

- Nathaniel Lewis

On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:39 AM, William Woodall <william at osrfoundation.org> wrote:

>> What does that mean for PCL and ROS?
> 
> Nothing basically, we can continue to release the current version of openni2 for Xtion and other non-Kinect primesense sensors and I have found libfreenect to work far better than openni for Kinect v1. As the PCL developer's mailing list put it, there are many (probably thousands) of Xtion users in the perception community and that's a plenty large enough group of people to support maintenance of the project going forward.
> 
>> as long as the license for openni's existing open-source code does not get changed.
> 
> AFAIK, there is nothing in their license (Apache 2.0) which they could use to prevent us from continuing to distribute or fork the existing code on Github.
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>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Piyush <piyushk at gmail.com> 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.
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>> Piyush
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>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Arkapravo Bhaumik <arkapravobhaumik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Reads like disaster ! I did purchase 2 ASUS Xtions, and found Xtion as more useful than Kinect -- first those went off the market, and now they also stop the OpenNI project.
>>> 
>>> I wonder if Xtions work with freenect ?? ! :-( ..... AFAIK, they don't ! 
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