Kai Chun Hui, I do not know anything about the “Unity Kinect Wrapper Plugin” but there is an excellent article about the Kinect and Unity:

https://medium.com/@anran1015/unity-kinect-documentation-cf61a25f732

Unity + Kinect Documentation

The aritcle says you must get:

– Kinect Windows SDK v1.7, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36996
– runtime SDK v1.7, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=36997
– developer toolkit v1.7. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36998

And you must get the Unity asset:

– Download Kinect with MS-SDK from unity assets store, import everything to the project.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/kinect-with-ms-sdk-7747

Also, we made an AR Sandbox for children’s games using Thom Wolfe’s instructions. Our blog is here:
https://catbirdar.wordpress.com/

The website of downloading the Unity Kinect Wrapper Plugin (CUM) is no longer available(Error 404). Is there any other resource for downloading the Plugin?

Hi Tobi,

thanks! I heavily dislike the discontinuation of the Kinect as well. In my opinion it is a quite powerful device, especially in conjunction with its official SDK.
Anyway there are some hardware alternatives. Microsoft recommends on its Kinect developer site the Intel RealSense cameras. In Addition there is also the Xtion (Pro) by Asus.
I myself did some small in between testing with the Xtion. It is much smaller, lighter and only requires USB 2.0, though has also a smaller camera resolution.

However, I am quite concerned by the announcement that Microsoft has discontinued the Kinect. Looks like any project using this could soon be obsolete once the last second-hand Kinects have been sold…
Are you aware of any hardware alternatives that are equally affordable and could replace the Kinect?

Thanks,
Tobi

AFAIK there is no V2 plugin by Carnegie Mellon University. I was referring to the official Microsoft V2 Unity Plugin that can be found here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/kinect under “NuGet and Unity Pro add-ons”
Just like to add that I never used the V2 plugin yet.

Hi,
nice to hear that the project is used somewhere else.

The Depth Mesh is a simple surface reconstruction of the Kinect depth image. Each pixel of the depth image is used as a vertex. Its color value is used as Z-Position, whereas X,Y pixel coordinates are used as X,Y-Position. In addition four adjacent vertices in a square are combined to two faces/triangles. So in a single color depth mesh, it’s a flat grid-like mesh. Then only the Z-Values of the vertices are changed accordingly.
The script handles the setup and buffer allocation in the beginning. Then while running, the Kinect depth image is acquired as a byte array and the vertices of the mesh are modified. Though we clamp the color value, crop the image and add some Gaussian filter.

We do not detect any mountains. The Shader simply does a texture blend according to the vertex/pixel Z-Value. Which is kind of just like coloring and displaying the height map or depth image.
My first guess to detect volcanoes would be to try to detect rings or small spots in the height map.

Julian! We found another person who did AR Sandbox on Windows. It’s Magic Sand. https://github.com/thomwolf/Magic-Sand and they are using OpenFrameworks.

Also it seems that you only detect mountains and not volcanos, Have you any idea on how to detect a volcano in a depth image (heightmap) ?

Thanks for advance Sir.