How good is an Xbox Kinect Sensor for VR? 

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what specs are your computer

@@7xyn Here are my main specs: Core i7 12700k 16gb DDR4-3200 CL16 Nvidia RTX 3060ti 8gb

@@TheGoIdCat thanks i was curious

That's so neat! Please update me on how that goes.

sounds expensive

360 is better than Xbox 1 camera

@@drake9097 you claim these things with no proof, One blows 360 out of the water - especially in dual mode.

​@@urbnctrl The Xbox One Kinect uses a time-of-flight sensor to capture depth data. This means that a beam of infrared light is flashed for every pixel of the depth camera and a photo-sensor receives the light bounce and calculates the time it took for the light to travel back and forth and uses this to calculate depth. This becomes an issue for devices that use base station tracking like HTC Vive, Vive Pro, Pimax, Valve Index, their controllers, and Vive trackers. Unless you have a single base station that's pointing the same way the Kinect is, the tracking on your devices will get confused by the infrared light coming from the Kinect's time-of-flight system.

Aww thank you!

Aw thank you! Glad that you can get some more use out of your Kinect!

Thank you! The audio editing portion was probably the most annoying editing part for me. I've been working on some stuff lately but it's been going slow. I have no idea when I can get it out.

@@TheGoIdCat I feel that, audio can be a real pain in the butt. No rush quality over quantity ya know. It takes me ages to post anything too.

I'd suggest making a youtube short for it with the main clips, and it would hopefully reach more people... just a suggestion

Thank you!

I like that idea, I might try it out

Let's make it 105

Thanks!

Awesome video too

Aww Thank you!

Thank you!

I did look into it, but I never did anything in terms of 360° tracking because of my budget. That sounds like a pretty neat project though!

Thank you!

Thank you!

As Akaya said on discord, it would probably be better to use an external software. I have seen some people use the default Kinect Studio as a way of connecting the two, but I don't know exactly how they did it. There is a plugin on GitHub made for Blender and the Kinect here: github.com/moraell/KinectMocap4Blender

That's a good idea! Might have to try that

What program is it? Might try it out.

The feet issue was one of the ones I had during the setup process. Basically, because of the way that the camera senses depth, it can't accurately track the feet and what position they are in, that's why they are shaky. The best way I found around this is to just set the feet position to Leg Bases Orientation in either K2VRs settings, or Amethysts settings. The feet being out of place though would be a calibration issue based on my experience. Definitely set the Kinect as far back as you can, and dont put it on the ground. I know that the Kinect One sensor has a mounting screw on the bottom of it so you can connect a Tri-Pod if you need to. While it's calibrating, and it tells you to move, make sure to move forward and backward as well. I made this mistake plenty of times while only moving side to side. Also, make sure the thing has plenty of power and is plugged into the right USB port (It needs to be USB 3.0 at least). It takes a crazy amount of power, and if it doesn't get enough, it starts to get glitchy. While I was testing, Amethyst seemed to have the best calibration and tracking, so if you aren't using that I would switch to it. More info about your problems can be found here (K2VRs website seems to have a lot of information on the topic): docs.k2vr.tech/en/one/common-issues/ Thanks for reaching out, hopefully something in this huge reply helped!

@@TheGoIdCat thank you for your detailed answer, i'll try to put everything you said in place and see if it works better, have a good day 😉

Thank you! That means a lot.

Yeah, 105 subs

Yeah! It's super fun as well of you can get it to work reliably!

That's kind of beyond my understanding of the kinect, there might be a program out there that allows you to use it as an input but I don't know a name off the top of my head

@@TheGoIdCat Ty for responding, i'll look into it

I had the same problem, make sure the Kinect has plenty of power by plugging it into its own power socket. Another thing, make sure its plugged into a USB 3.0 port directly on the pc, not on an extender or anything like that. I hope that helps!

Usb 3 0 port

As K2VR documentation for issues with Kinect V2 says. Renesas USB 3.0 seems to be the only supported 3.0 port. All other compatible ports are Intel, AMD, ASMedia 3.1 or higher.

The delay is very minimal, but it's enough to notice

@@TheGoIdCat oh so sad

Unfortunately you can't do this on an Xbox, that's one of the main reasons why I got an adapter to plug it into my computer. If you have it plugged into a computer: You can do motion tracking (Without the need of a VR headset) All depth cameras still work even without a headset. But if you want to do stuff such as at the time code of 2:21, you will need a VR headset, because that's in a game called VRchat.

@@TheGoIdCat Can I do it on a laptop tho? I don't own a pc.

Yep! As long as it's powerful enough, you should be good.

@@TheGoIdCat Thank ya

I positioned the kinect sensor as best as I could in the space that I had. It was also hard to find a good spot that was close to an outlet that decided to work. Most of the issues I was having were kinect related and not Amethyst related.

Yeah, the reason why I got the Xbox One Kinect was because my friend had it, he gave it to me for a good price. Plus, I also wanted the Xbox One version because of the better 1080p camera.

Understandable.

Yes it is lol

Amethyst on it's own doesn't have finger tracking, the Kinect Studio SDK that is required for the device to work on a windows computer seemingly does though. So you might be able to extract some of the tracking data from that.

True

That means there's a ghost in your room, you should run

Aha, yeah

What bro

shat oop!!!!

Thank you! :D

Steam VR still allows you to connect external devices while Amethyst is running, so I would assume so. I don't have any physical trackers to test that hypothesis though.

@@TheGoIdCat thanks for the quick reply. Good stuff!