Kinect Mocap Toolkit for Windows enables artists to use Kinect for Xbox 360 sensors – it doesn’t work with the Kinect v2, as it uses the third-party NiTE SDK – to record mocap data in BVH format.Īlthough the software supports up to four sensors out of the box, Mesh Online says that three is usually sufficient, including for fairly demanding use cases like capturing dance moves. While the original Kinect hasn’t been sold since 2015, and the entire Kinect consumer product line was discontinued in 2017, it’s still possible to find second-hand units: they currently sell on eBay for around $20.Ĭapture full-body motion capture data in BVH format using up to four Kinect sensors Originally intended as a gaming controller, Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor quickly became the tool of choice for many indie artists looking for a low-cost motion capture system on its release in 2010.īoth iPi Soft and Jasper Brekelmans released commercial mocap tools based around the hardware: Brekelmans still has a free version available to download. Needs the original Kinect sensor: you can pick up econd-hand units cheaply

The source code on which the software is based has been online since 2017, but the new 1.0 release makes it available as a compiled Windows binary, and implements a true 360-degree capture field. Mesh Online – aka Unity tools developer Mingfen Wang – has released Kinect Mocap Toolkit For Windows 1.0, a free tool for recording full-body motion capture data using up to four Microsoft Kinect sensors.

The system now supports 360-degree recording using up to four Kinect sensors, and is available for Windows. An early demo of Mesh Online’s Kinect-based motion capture technology, recorded on macOS.

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