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Mike Taulty, long time Friend of the Kinect Gallery, has been writing up a great series of articles around Intel's RealSense camera and Visual Studio (of course 
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Here's the current series ToC (as of the time of writing this), where you can get a good feel of everything he's covering...
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I've been itching to experiment with Intel's RealSense technology. Here's the glossy video that sold it to me - I'm a sucker for a glossy video
there are then some more general details on Intel's website;
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or, perhaps more for the developer view of the technology you can go to;
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but, frankly, I've found RealSense as described here to be a little bit of a 'muddle' to get my head around as it relates to a number of different things and in the end I turned to Wikipedia in an attempt to try and figure this out a little more;
That page tells you that RealSense is a technology where you have a regular camera alongside an IR laser projector, an IR camera and a microphone array. Intel then has 3 camera models that they've announced around that technology but not all of them are available as far as I know;
Today, these cameras are 'far from prevalent'. In order to get hold of one, I recently bought the Link Removed which you can get hold of for around $99 plus the rest if you're looking to ship it to somewhere like the UK.
I also recently happened to buy a Link Removed which came with another of these cameras built into the screen and so I now probably have 2 more RealSense F200 cameras than around 99% of people but I'd expect that availability is going to change in coming months.
Once I'd got hold of a camera, I tried out a few of the demos and they worked really well for me - there are similar demos recorded on YouTube here;
Naturally, the next thing I wanted was an SDK so that I might try some of this out from a coding perspective. Intel doesn't make it 'super easy' to get hold of the SDK because they want a registration in order to download it. That's no problem in and of itself but I got bogged down trying to resurrect an old account on their website but, finally, got the SDK from here;
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and that specifically targets Windows 8.1 64-bit desktop applications so beware if you're running on another operating system or if you wanted to build Windows apps because I don't think this SDK will help you in that regard right now.
as an aside, it looks like WIndows Apps are on the roadmap here and it’d be great to see because I’d have liked to match up using the SDK with drawing via the Win2D libraries.
The other thing to be aware of is that the SDK has specific processor requirements. You need a;
4th generation (or later) Intel® Core™ processor
I came a little unstuck on this with my 'work' laptop because I'm subject to a corporate, enterprise policy where my laptop and phone are on a disappointingly slow upgrade cycle and it turned out that the Core i7 in my Dell XPS 12 was too old for the SDK and it wasn’t compatible so be aware of that.
With the SDK set up, I was ready to try and write a 'hello world' application. In so far as I could figure out, the SDK targets a number of environments;
Of those, my natural inclination is to try and write some C# code and so that's what I set about trying to do in the first instance.
So, time to do a quick File->New->Project and I made myself a blank WPF application;
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and that seemed to get me to the point where I can run up my executable without it falling over.
From thereon in, it's time to dig a little deeper into the SDK and see if I can get some data from it onto the screen.
I've had a little explore around and from what I can see there are quite a lot of synergies between the approach that this SDK takes and the Kinect for Windows V2 SDK that I've been experimenting with in recent months as per Link Removed. Hopefully, that means that I can re-use a little of what I learned there but I may be some time…
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.Here's the current series ToC (as of the time of writing this), where you can get a good feel of everything he's covering...
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I've been itching to experiment with Intel's RealSense technology. Here's the glossy video that sold it to me - I'm a sucker for a glossy video
there are then some more general details on Intel's website;
Link Removed
or, perhaps more for the developer view of the technology you can go to;
Link Removed
but, frankly, I've found RealSense as described here to be a little bit of a 'muddle' to get my head around as it relates to a number of different things and in the end I turned to Wikipedia in an attempt to try and figure this out a little more;
That page tells you that RealSense is a technology where you have a regular camera alongside an IR laser projector, an IR camera and a microphone array. Intel then has 3 camera models that they've announced around that technology but not all of them are available as far as I know;
- The front facing camera (Front F200) which is intended to be built into laptops/desktops to be applied to natural interaction areas such as gesture recognition, facial recognition. Camera details are Link Removed
- The Snapshot camera which is intended to be built into tablets/phones and which is applied to 'computational photography' - refocusing, filtering, taking measurements from a photograph after it's been captured. Camera details are Link Removed.
- The rear facing camera (Rear R200) for augmented reality, object scanning. I don't think there are any camera details on that one to date.
Today, these cameras are 'far from prevalent'. In order to get hold of one, I recently bought the Link Removed which you can get hold of for around $99 plus the rest if you're looking to ship it to somewhere like the UK.
I also recently happened to buy a Link Removed which came with another of these cameras built into the screen and so I now probably have 2 more RealSense F200 cameras than around 99% of people but I'd expect that availability is going to change in coming months.
Once I'd got hold of a camera, I tried out a few of the demos and they worked really well for me - there are similar demos recorded on YouTube here;
Naturally, the next thing I wanted was an SDK so that I might try some of this out from a coding perspective. Intel doesn't make it 'super easy' to get hold of the SDK because they want a registration in order to download it. That's no problem in and of itself but I got bogged down trying to resurrect an old account on their website but, finally, got the SDK from here;
Link Removed
and that specifically targets Windows 8.1 64-bit desktop applications so beware if you're running on another operating system or if you wanted to build Windows apps because I don't think this SDK will help you in that regard right now.
as an aside, it looks like WIndows Apps are on the roadmap here and it’d be great to see because I’d have liked to match up using the SDK with drawing via the Win2D libraries.
The other thing to be aware of is that the SDK has specific processor requirements. You need a;
4th generation (or later) Intel® Core™ processor
I came a little unstuck on this with my 'work' laptop because I'm subject to a corporate, enterprise policy where my laptop and phone are on a disappointingly slow upgrade cycle and it turned out that the Core i7 in my Dell XPS 12 was too old for the SDK and it wasn’t compatible so be aware of that.
With the SDK set up, I was ready to try and write a 'hello world' application. In so far as I could figure out, the SDK targets a number of environments;
- C++
- C#
- Unity
- Java
- JavaScript - specifically, I think this is about having a browser open up a websocket to some kind of HTTP server running on the local machine that’s then talking natively to the SDK.
Of those, my natural inclination is to try and write some C# code and so that's what I set about trying to do in the first instance.
So, time to do a quick File->New->Project and I made myself a blank WPF application;
...
and that seemed to get me to the point where I can run up my executable without it falling over.
From thereon in, it's time to dig a little deeper into the SDK and see if I can get some data from it onto the screen.
I've had a little explore around and from what I can see there are quite a lot of synergies between the approach that this SDK takes and the Kinect for Windows V2 SDK that I've been experimenting with in recent months as per Link Removed. Hopefully, that means that I can re-use a little of what I learned there but I may be some time…
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