<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>You still need primesense's NITE software to do the skeleton tracking though right?<br><br>- Nathaniel Lewis</div><div><br>On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:39 AM, William Woodall <<a href="mailto:william@osrfoundation.org">william@osrfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What does that mean for PCL and ROS?</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">as long as the license for openni's existing open-source code does not get changed.</span></blockquote>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Piyush <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:piyushk@gmail.com" target="_blank">piyushk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Piyush</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Arkapravo Bhaumik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com" target="_blank">arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>I wonder if Xtions work with freenect ?? ! :-( ..... AFAIK, they don't ! <br>
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