Known Issues:
Unity 5.0 and later introduced an issue, which causes in many cases Kinect tracking to stop after 1-2 minutes with DeviceNotGenuine error. As a result you will see that the Kinect-enabled game freezes. There is no definite workaround yet. My advice is: If you encounter this issue, please install Unity 4.6 along with Unity 5 (just in another folder) and use the K1-assets in Unity 4 environment.
Update 12.Aug.2015: The bug-report, along with all details, is in the hands of Unity staff now, for reproduction and fix.
Update 07.Sep.2015: Here is what I got from the Unity support stuff: “We have checked that other people have the issue outside of Unity also, the entire device goes in a broken state. That indicates a driver bug. If we pop up the windows device manager, we can see the device is broken after it gets into this state and even unplugging it and plugging it back in doesn’t fix it so it’s an issue on Microsoft’s driver.”
Update 10.Sep.2015: One other asset user – Thank you Victor Grigoryev! – has experimented with multiple configurations. Here are his conclusions:
- If I connect the Kinect to USB 3.0 on Windows 8 and 10, it works perfect. But the issue was on my Windows 7 machine with USB 2.0 only (no USB 3.0 on motherboard at all).
- When I tried to connect to USB 2.0 on Windows 8 or 10, I’ve seen some lags from kinect, but it still worked.
- On Win 7 – I reinstalled Kinect SDK and RESTARTED the computer then. Without restarting nothing will change. I checked that several times. And not to restart was one of my major mistakes before.
Update 29.Oct.2015: I posted the issue on the MSDN Kinect-v1 forum here. Please up-vote the post and comment it with your own case and machine configuration (CPU, OS, USB port, sensor, Kinect SDK, Unity version, etc.), if you suffer from this issue. This is the last thing we could do, in order to ask the Kinect staff provide a workaround or SDK update.
Last Update, FYI: The best workaround for this issue, as reported so far by different users, is as follows: Uninstall all Kinect-v1 related packages (SDKs, drivers, OpenNI, NiTE, Zugfu, etc.), restart, install Kinect SDK 1.8 only, and restart again.
How to Run the Example:
1. Install the Kinect SDK 1.8 or Runtime 1.8 as explained in Readme-Kinect-MsSdk.pdf, located in Assets-folder.
2. Download and import this package.
3. Open and run scene KinectAvatarsDemo, located in Assets/AvatarsDemo-folder.
4. Open and run scene KinectGesturesDemo, located in Assets/GesturesDemo-folder.
5. Open and run scene KinectOverlayDemo, located in Assets/OverlayDemo-folder.
6. Open and run scene DepthColliderDemo, located in Assets/DepthColliderDemo-folder.
Download:
The official release of ‘Kinect with MS-SDK’-package is available in the Unity Asset Store.
The project’s Git-repository is public and is located here. This repository is private and its access is limited to contributors and donators only.
Troubleshooting:
* If you need integration with the KinectExtras, see ‘How to Integrate KinectExtras with the KinectManager’-section here.
* If you get DllNotFoundException, make sure you have installed the Kinect SDK 1.8 or Kinect Runtime 1.8.
* Kinect SDK 1.8 and tools (Windows-only) can be found here.
* The example was tested with Kinect SDK 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8.
* Here is a link to the project’s Unity forum: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/218033-Kinect-with-MS-SDK
What’s New in Version 1.12:
1. Updated AvatarController to use the Mecanim configured bones. Big thanks to Mikhail Korchun!
2. Added AvatarControllerClassic-component to allow manual assignment of bone transforms. Big thanks to Aaron Brooker!
3. Added ‘Offset relative to sensor’-setting to AvatarController and AvatarControllerClassic, to provide the option to put the avatar into his real Kinect coordinates. Big thanks to Claudio Rufa!
4. Added depth-collider demo scene, to demonstrate the mapping of Kinect space and depth coordinates to Unity world coordinates, and how this can be used for VR collisions.
5. Added gestures debug-text-setting to KinectManager to enable easier gesture development.
6. Updated detection of the available gestures, to make them more robust and easier to use.
7. Fixed sensor initialization, when the speech manager from KinectExtras is integrated.
Playmaker Actions for ‘Kinect with MS-SDK’ and ‘KinectExtras with MsSDK’:
And here is “one more thing”: A great Unity-package for designers and developers using Playmaker, created by my good friend Jonathan O’Duffy from HitLab-Australia and his team of talented students. It contains many ready-to-use Playmaker actions for Kinect v1 and a lot of example scenes. The package integrates seamlessly with ‘Kinect with MS-SDK’ and ‘KinectExtras with MsSDK’-assets. I can only recommend it!
