Requirements
You are going to need Macports. This is quite a useful utility that manages all the terminal-based tools automatically. Go to this link and install the *.dmg package. Just make sure you don't have similar utilities already installed, like Homebrew or Fink, because you might have troubles, such as version mismatches at /usr/bin . Download and Install via Macports: sudo port install git-core
sudo port install libtool
sudo port install libusb +universal
Install OpenKinect
OpenKinect is fuckin great open source project for Kinect owners that want to play, code, create, develop and generally have sex with computer vision research subjects. Createa folder under Documenter or whatever and clone the project from GitHub. git clone git://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect.gitsudo cp * /usr/bin/
Ok, now let's make some fun!
Install OpenNI
What's this, you may ask. This is an open source framework – the OpenNI framework – which provides an application programming interface (API) for writing applications utilizing natural interaction. This API covers communication with both low level devices (e.g. vision and audio sensors), as well as high-level middleware solutions (e.g. for visual tracking using computer vision). That has been told, download the latest UNSTABLE source code for Mac/Linux at Select OpenNI Binaries in the first drop down menu Select "Unstable" in the second drop down menu OpenNI Unstable Build for Mac OS X 10.7 (latest version) Click on "Download" Ok, when you download the file, extract it under the base OpenKinect folder (or whatever you want) and run the install script.sudo ./install.shNormally, you gonna see
Installing OpenNI
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copying shared libraries...OK
copying executables...OK
copying include files...OK
creating database directory...OK
registering module 'libnimMockNodes.dylib'...OK
registering module 'libnimCodecs.dylib'...OK
registering module 'libnimRecorder.dylib'...OK
creating java bindings directory...OK
Installing java bindings...OK
*** DONE ***Install SensorKinect
Download the latest version of the Unstable SensorKinect https://github.com/avin2/SensorKinect and extract it in your kinect folder. Go to the "bin" folder. Extract the file "SensorKinect093-Bin-MacOSX-v5.1.2.1.tar.bz2" in the same bin folder. Terminal, go to the bin folder and run the command:sudo ./install.shyou gonna see:
Installing PrimeSense Sensor **************************** creating config dir /usr/etc/primesense...OK copying shared libraries...OK copying executables...OK registering module 'libXnDeviceSensorV2KM.dylib' with OpenNI...OK registering module 'libXnDeviceFile.dylib' with OpenNI...OK copying server config file...OK setting uid of server...OK creating server logs dir...OK *** DONE ***
Install PrimeSense NITE
Download the latest version of PrimeSense on: Select OpenNI Compliant Middleware Binaries in the first drop down menu Select "Unstable"in the second drop down menu PrimeSense NITE Unstable Build for Mac OS X 10.7 (latest version) Click on "Download".Extract the tarball and run the installer script.
sudo ./install.shNormally you will get:
Installing NITE *************** Copying shared libraries... OK Copying includes... OK Installing java bindings... OK Installing module 'Features_1_3_0'... ls: Features_1_3_0/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_3_1'... ls: Features_1_3_1/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_4_1'... ls: Features_1_4_1/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_4_2'... ls: Features_1_4_2/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_5_2'... Registering module 'libXnVFeatures_1_5_2.dylib'... OK Copying XnVSceneServer... OK Installing module 'Features_1_5_2' ls: Hands_1_3_0/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_5_2' ls: Hands_1_3_1/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_5_2' ls: Hands_1_4_1/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_5_2' ls: Hands_1_4_2/Bin/lib*dylib: No such file or directory Installing module 'Features_1_5_2' registering module 'libXnVHandGenerator_1_5_2.dylib'...OK Adding license.. OK *** DONE ***
Run some example
Copy all the xml files from NITE Data to the SensorKinect Data folder. I prefer the terminal way, you may use drag n drop GUI method.cp Data/*.xml ../SensorKinect/Data/Now browse onto the Samples dir ( /NITE/Samples/Bin/x64-Release) and launch the the samples. For example let's run the Sample-SceneAnalysis.
OSCeleton
OSCeleton is a proxy that sends skeleton information collected from the kinect sensor via OSC, making it easier to use input from the device in any language / framework that supports the OSC protocol. So, clone the project hosted at GitHub, but make sure your are in OpenNI directory.cd OpenNI git clone https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton.gitnow compile it
make -j4I use -j4 for my 4 cores and way faster compiling ;) If you have HT enabled, try -j8 (in case of four native cores plus 4 visual threads). If everything worked, you can now test OSCeleton. In the folder "Sensebloom-7307683-OSCeleton" double-click the executable "OSCeleton" or open it in Terminal.Keep a distance of two steps away from Kinect and stay in position of calibration, with both arms raised, as shown below:
Thanks to Alexandra leaving me mess around with her room :PPP
You should see in terminal:
Initializing... Configured to send OSC messages to 127.0.0.1:7110 Multipliers (x, y, z): 1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000 Offsets (x, y, z): 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000 OSC Message format: Default OSCeleton format Initialized Kinect, looking for users... New User 1 Calibration started for user 1 Calibration complete, start tracking user 1
Install Processing and libraries
Go to then drag and drop the application into /Applications dir in order to have it installed. The mac way ;)Download examples
Go to GitHub and clone the OSceleton examples.https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton-examples.gitthen go to cd OSCeleton-examples/processing/MotionCapture3D/
cd OSCeleton-examples/processing/MotionCapture3D/and create a libraries folder
mkdir librariesInside that folder extract the two libraries need oscP5 - pbox2d - Ok now run the OSceleton again in order to calibrate yourself (again) and in the same time launch MotionCapture3D.pde with Processing. Click play and voila: Thanks to for the tutorial and ideas.