{"id":835,"date":"2015-02-08T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=835"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:34:03","slug":"motion-capture-shootout-kinect-1-and-kinect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2015\/motion-capture-shootout-kinect-1-and-kinect-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion Capture: Kinect 1 vs. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kinect 2 is supposed to have superior skeleton tracking, so I tested it against the Kinect 1 in a single-camera setup of iPi Studio. <\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: a single camera is always going to have trouble when the actor doesn&#8217;t face front, so both tests show obvious glitches. However the Kinect 2 does seem to capture more subtle movements. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#8800d9;\">Kinect 1 is purple<\/span>, <span style=\"color:#35c87c;\">Kinect 2 is green<\/span>:<br \/>\n<video width=\"468\" height=\"288\" controls><source src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/video\/kinect_1_2_comparison.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/>Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-files\/kinect_1_2_comparison_fbx.zip\">FBX files<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kinect 2 is supposed to have superior skeleton tracking, so I tested it against the Kinect 1 in a single-camera setup of iPi Studio. Conclusion: a single camera is always going to have trouble when the actor doesn&#8217;t face front, so both tests show obvious glitches. However the Kinect 2 does seem to capture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}