I have a pile of kinects I built up by snagging them out of goodwills and other charity shops. It's still cool as fuck tech. I mostly use the original 360 version because there are open source sdks for them that run on pretty much every platform. I think there are a few half baked K2 sdks that are open source these days but I haven't looked. They are great for interactive art projects. Tons of use in the computer assisted art space.
Totally, the Kinect was the first device I ever “hacked” with and really was what got me into programming. It’s a lot of fun to mess with to this day, when I last pulled mine out I was tinkering with full body tracking for SteamVR. It's too bad the K2 never got the same robust software platform since the hardware had some interesting capabilities, I recall the project I was working with said it had some advantages in the scanning range but the software was too unreliable to recommend it.
Is there anything like it available on the market new in box today? I recall the RealSense cameras seemed comparable but those are gone now.
Golly. I still do miss being about to navigate Netflix titles by just swiping my hand in either direction. That really felt like the future made real and now it’s been discontinued for years.
