Kinect on WindowsXP with OpenNI

After struggling with getting the Kinect working I have these instructions.  At one point I uninstalled Primesense and OpenNI and started over in order to get it working.

Download and install processing

From http://www.openni.org/openni-sdk/ you get the luxury of a microsoft installer .msi.

• Download and install the “OpenNI Binaries” -> “Unstable” -> “Windows x86”
• Download and install the “OpenNI Compliant Middleware Binaries” -> “Unstable” -> “Windows x86”

Now plug in the Kinect and see if it’s working.

You need to copy some files over in order to get the examples working.

In processing go to File -> Examples and pick Contributed Libraries -> SimpleOpenNI -> OpenNI -> DepthImage

Hopefully that works.