Kinect1

Tip

The Microsoft Kinect is not available anymore.

Description

The Kinect is the most famous RGBD sensor. But it is not available anymore for sale as Microsoft released a new version, the Kinect v2 also known as “Kinect for Xbox One”.

This RGBD sensor contains:

• a 640x480 RGB camera
• an infrared emitter
• a 640x480 depth camera
• a tilt motor
• a microphone

The infrared emitter uses a technology called the projected lights that are then computed to create the depth image.

Warning

If you point two kinects to the same surface you won’t be able to see correctly on the depth images as the two differents lights will cancel each other

On ROS

To run the Kinect1 on ROS, you need to use the freenect_launch package