Also, you can cut the kinect v2's cable and  just splice a USB 3.0 male connector cable (blue, says SuperSpeed on it) and a 12v   2.5a to 3a  power adapter to it. 

You're likely to have either laying around at home and it's the cheapest and easiest route if you don't care to plug your Kinect into an XBox One game console ever again

Just match all the standard USB 3.0 wire colors and ground wires together on both cables,  with the light brown (+) and black(ground) wire on the Kinect cable going to the positive and negative wires of the power supply, respectively.

Theres a black and white striped wire on the Kinect cable that is a 'debug' wire - its not used for anything, just terminate it with tape 

Thats how I've done my second Kinect One - works like a charm.   

Of course, make sure you know or at least read up on how to splice USB 3.0 cable wires properly (soldering,  heat shrink, electric tape etc) - I take no responsibility if you fry your hardware.

Hi webfame .... Yes - there's quite a few YT videos and other documented instructions on doing these types of hacks .... (I'd seen quite a few re: adding your own power supply - but your mention of adding the USB 3 connector is a first for me).
Certainly a big money saver if you've got the dexterity and experience with soldering at that scale - (the adapter units are way over priced). Glad to hear it worked for you! And like you say, if anyone decides to go this route - it's 'do it at your own risk' .... :)  ...


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OK. after 9 days without NBN, they (finally) actually showed up and fixed it!
There's a saying about Western Australia (abbreviated W.A.) ... - that W.A. actually stands for 'Wait A-while'.

Snarpe! ... I just viewed your test footage - I'm impressed! You're at least getting a workable frame-rate there, so this proves:
1. It's 'do-able' on a laptop and
2. 4 cores is the 'key' to success with the iClone mocap plugin.

(By comparison, my laptop captured very low frames rates, (having only 2 cores) - even though the CPU speed was 'up there').

In your video's 2nd part, I loved the movements of the 'fingers'. (The V2 sensor claims it can resolve down to finger width).
Were those finger movements as per the 'capture' only - or did you have to do some 'adjusting' after capture?

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Glad to see you're back up and running again Steve!  It's funny that the same company that takes it's good ole time coming out to fix things will be right at your doorstep the next day to cut you off when you don't pay your bill! LOL! :P

Snarp! ... I just viewed your test footage - I'm impressed! You're at least getting a workable frame-rate there, so this proves:
1. It's 'do-able' on a laptop and
2. 4 cores is the 'key' to success with the iClone mocap plugin.

Yeah what I have seems to work okay, but it could be better.  I'll get a better idea once I do the second test run and pay attention to the frame rate this time.



Well you actually have 4 cores, every chip has twice as many cores than what is advertised.  The other 2 cores are reserved for windows, but in my case I found that I could invoke my other 4 cores giving me a total of 8 working cores on my desktop computer, I'll have to try that trick on the laptop too, maybe it will help with a better frame rate, who knows!



I read that the sensor could do that also but didn't see the effect of separating finger movements, this might be something that will only work using the SDK and Blender, I'll try to figure it out on the next test.  The finger movements you see in the video I did using the Motion Puppet, I just picked a couple of different ones, masking out the body parts I didn't want to change and then just kept trying different ones for the effect I was looking for, which was actually for my character to be using holographic interface to do brain surgery!  I only spent about an hour on that project, maybe I'll revisit it someday to make a better one! ;)



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Well, while Mike Kelley's eagerly awaiting delivery of a 'Perception Neuron' Rig, and Rampa's following the progress of a bluetooth 'wearnotch' product, - I'm chiming in here with more on the Kinect v2 Mocap system....
Firstly, I've just received a pleasant surprise today regarding the 'System Requirements' for the Kinect v2 (in my case at least).
Throughout this thread, I've been of the opinion that my particular PC laptop was 'deficient', ie: lacking in number of 'cores' ...  'Not so' it seems.
After downloading the 'Kinect v2 Configuration Verifier' just now, and 'running it' - I was pleasantly surprised when it returned the following results:


75% of original size (was 671x19) - Click to enlarge

Download link for the Kinect v2 Configuration Verifier:  https://kinect-configuration-verifier.en.lo4d.com

And the *USB Controller* result being 'Amber' (not *Green*), simply means the test couldn't verify 100% that my USB-3 was 'compatible' (but it is). Also very interesting is the reported '30 fps', though to be fair, you hardly have to move the mouse and she'll drop to 29 or 28 fps .... Even so, it proves that even my humble little 'toy' (relatively speaking), is 'good to go', and I no longer need 'assume' that it's 'way under spec' .... (Edit: No - it IS under spec, as we'll find out later).

But that's all 'theory' and the real world 'practical' side of things is what really matters.
Now, I'd really *love* to do some further 'testing', but my '15 day trial' has ended, during which time I was 'off the air' and without internet for 9 of those days due to storm damage - which didn't help). Now I'm scouring the internet for some free or trial software so I can get back into running and testing this v2 device .... so if anyone has any kind *suggestions* about which capture software to *try* - I'd really appreciate it - (would be most welcome). :)


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Brekel has a free trial, and I think iPisoft does as well (iPisoft is what I would recommend -- although it's a yearly cost it's superior software.  I still have a three year license for their 2-Kinect version I haven't even activated yet, and I've been using my one license for nearly three years now.

As long as you don't turn around (stay facing forward) and watch your arms and legs so they don't occlude you can get some very nice captures with a 1-Kinect system (however, those limitations are pretty severe, as you'll find.  It's mostly good for the "talking heads" sort of television anchor animations you can do).

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Thanks Mike ... I'll give the Brekel trial a go I guess .... (I've 'heard of them') ....It can become very confusing ... at the moment, all that's going through my mind is 'truebones', 'ipisoft', 'brekel', 'web animate', 'Ikinema', 'NI Mate', etc etc I don't know whether I'm coming or going - I'm frankly getting very confused :crazy:....

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But DO try the iPisoft, if you haven't already worn out your trial with them.  They are far superior (the Brekel "pro" solution might be worth looking at, because he's improved it, but when I tried his software a few years ago it wasn't any better than RL's crappy plugin).

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I had the same experience with Brekel. I tried with the new Kinect and the motion capture wasn’t exactly stellar and if you turned or rotated the whole thing went out of whack. Wasn’t even worth using. I turned to using stick motions and keyframing at that point. Oh and converting a bunch of motions to ipuopet motions. Very handy for quick animations!

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kungphu >>>> ".... Oh and converting a bunch of motions to ipuppet motions. Very handy for quick animations...." <<<<
kungphu - can I please ask 'what type of motions' did you convert into ipuppet motions? Were they your 'Brekel captures' that you converted to ipuppet? thnx :)

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