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Download NiTE v1.5.2.21 for Mac OS X. 2 Once downloaded, move the NITE-Bin-MacOSX-v1.5.2.21.tar.zip file to your Kinect folder and double-click to uncompress it. And just like before, open Terminal and type in cd, followed by a space, and then drag the NITE-Bin-Dev-MacOSX-v1.5.2.21 folder into the Terminal window. Hit Return to navigate to that directory, and you should see something. The common filename for the program's installer is skanect-1.6.1-macosx-x64.zip. Skanect is compatible with Mac OS X 10.8.0 or later. This Mac download was scanned by our built-in antivirus and was rated as clean. This Mac app is a product of Occipital.


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Kinect for Xbox 360 is the latest buzz in the gaming world. And here is the tutorial to connect Kinect to Mac. Yes, you read that right, now you can use Kinect with your Mac. For that you need to install the driver for Kinect compatible on Mac.

Kinect is the motion sensor camera which captures your movement and lets you play games. Kinect for Xbox 360 is undoubtedly the next big thing. So, we have got the step by step guide to connect Kinect to Mac for you:

Things You Need

To start with, we need Git and Cmake which is recommended to download and install via MacPorts or fink, or Homebrew. But if you are using Homebrew, make sure that you its latest version.

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Create OpenKinect repository

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Now, you are required to create an OpenKinect repository and libusb. It is very important to have OpenKinect repository on your Mac, if you are willing to connect Kinect to Mac. Here are the commands to do it:

Patch Libusb For OpenKinect

Next, you need to patch libusb for OpenKinect. You can do that by executing following commands:

cd libusb

./autogen.sh

patch -p1 < ./libfreenect/platform/osx/libusb-osx-kinect.diff

./configure

make

sudo make install

Configure OpenKinect

Now you need to configure your OpenKinect. It is necessary to do it, in order to connect to Kinect to Mac. You can configure OpenKinect by executing following commands:

cd ./libfreenect/

cd c

mkdir build

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cd build

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ccmake .

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Create OpenKinect repository

Now, you are required to create an OpenKinect repository and libusb. It is very important to have OpenKinect repository on your Mac, if you are willing to connect Kinect to Mac. Here are the commands to do it:

Patch Libusb For OpenKinect

Next, you need to patch libusb for OpenKinect. You can do that by executing following commands:

cd libusb

./autogen.sh

patch -p1 < ./libfreenect/platform/osx/libusb-osx-kinect.diff

./configure

make

sudo make install

Configure OpenKinect

Now you need to configure your OpenKinect. It is necessary to do it, in order to connect to Kinect to Mac. You can configure OpenKinect by executing following commands:

cd ./libfreenect/

cd c

mkdir build

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cd build

ccmake .

Once you done with executing the commands, press 'c'. This should actually start configuring OpenKinect, but this will not happen as the system cannot find libusb which is crucial while you try to connect your Kinect to Mac.

So, press 'e', which will exit and then you can manually edit the path to libusb, so that it can detect it. Point it as

/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0/

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And now, you can continue.

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Build OpenKinect

Once you done with the configuration part, you need to build the OpenKinect which actually lets you connect your Kinect to Mac. Here are the commands:

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cmake .

make

You also have an option to build OpenKinect as an Xcode project. To do that, execute below commands:

cmake -G Xcode .

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make

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That is all. Now, you can done with all the technical part required to connect Kinect to Mac. Now, you can find the program labeled as 'glview' in the path libfreenect/c/build/examples.

This is how you are required to connect Kinect to Mac. Follow these steps and you can access your Kinect for Xbox 360 on your Mac too, as you have successfully installed Kinect drivers on your Mac.

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Hi,
I've had some luck getting OpenNI samples to work on the Mac, and I
still have a few issues as well. I thought it may be helpful to
explain what I've done and what my results are.
I am running a MacBook Pro (model 3,1), with a dual-core 2.4GHz cpu,
which was purchased in 2007. The OS is 10.6.6. I picked up a Kinetic
the other night, but we will soon order a Primasense sensor to
hopefully simplify matters.
I downloaded the latest unstable version of OpenNI yesterday, followed
the read-me very carefully and everything built successfully. I had
not previously installed anything from MacPorts, so it did take over
an hour - all the time was going into fetches for dependencies.
Next, I loaded avin2's driver, but I was getting some ‘Bad Parameter'
errors along with an error about USB priority. Looking back, I think
I could have gotten it to work, but instead, I downloaded the ros
driver and installed it.
The README with the ros driver says, 'Each process using the device
driver should have the CAP_SYS_NICE capability in order to raise
thread priority. Failing to have that capability, will cause a failure
in setting priority, consequently causing loss of data.' I don't
really know how to do this (I assume at the BSD level of MacOS), but
I'll have to figure it out and put appropriate code in the samples'
source and rebuild, unless anyone can tell me what to do on this.
Finally, I downloaded the NITE binaries and installed them, then
edited the XML files in the Data directory to change 320 X 240
occurrences to 640 X 480.
I've been running the sample executables as root, just to eliminate
any privilege issues with the USB driver for now.
It seems that the only real issue is the problem with setting priority
on the USB. The holy grail for me will be when I can have gestures
come in as events in Cocoa applications, but what's out there is a
great start.
Here are my results so far:
sh-3.2# pwd
/Users/poirotsj/Dropbox/Documents/Development/OpenNI/Nite-1.3.0.18/
Samples/Bin
sh-3.2# ./Sample-Boxes
Setting resolution to VGA
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. and the screen came up)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-CircleControl
Setting resolution to VGA
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. and the screen came up)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-Players
Could not find data file /usr/etc/primesense/XnVFeatures/s.dat
current working directory = /Users/poirotsj/Dropbox/Documents/
Development/OpenNI/Nite-1.3.0.18/Samples/Bin
(.. I created /usr/etc/primesense/XnVFeatures and copied all the
files from the Nite XnVFeatures to it, then..)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-Players
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. and the screen came up, showing what I imagine was a depth map)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-PointServer
usage: ./Sample-PointServer section_name
(.. I'll have to go back to the docs and find out what a section name
is)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-PointViewer
Setting resolution to VGA
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. and the screen came up)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-SingleControl
Setting resolution to VGA
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
Please perform focus gesture to start session
Hit any key to exit
(.. will have to look at docs to see what this is supposed to do)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-TrackPad
Setting resolution to VGA
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. got a black screen, can't tell what it's supposed to do, but at
least something came up)
Although I did build OpenNI from source, and that's what I'm running,
I also downloaded the binary OpenNI-Bin-MacOSX-v1.0.0.25. Here are
the results of running those samples:
sh-3.2# pwd
/Users/poirotsj/Dropbox/Documents/Development/OpenNI/OpenNI-Bin-MacOSX-
v1.0.0.25/Samples/Bin/Release
sh-3.2# ./Sample-NiAudioSample
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
No audio node was found!
(.. don't know why this is, since the ros driver's README says that
audio is supported.)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-NiCRead
Init context failed: File not found!
(.. hmm)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-NiSimpleViewer
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. full screen image came up)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-NiUserTracker
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. screen came up with image)
sh-3.2# ./NiViewer
Warning: USB events thread - failed to set priority. This might cause
loss of data..
(.. screen came up with two-tone image on left, color image on right,
bottom half of screen black)
sh-3.2# ./Sample-NiBackRecorder time 10 depth vga verbose
170 [INFO] OpenNI version is 1.0.0 (Build 25)-MacOSX (Jan 15 2011
14:40:07)
502 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/libnimMockNodes.dylib..
869 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Device: OpenNI/Mock/
1.0.0.25
892 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Depth: OpenNI/Mock/
(.. very long ..)
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