Most of the development in realsenses has been discontinued a few months ago. We used one (SR300) at the company and discovered that some particular poses (two persons making a kissing motion) would just make the latest SDK (R3) crash, even without feature & gesture recognition active. The answer? "EWONTFIX, use the older SDK, this won't be developed anymore anyways".

Besides, the kinect has honestly better specs, a better quality in tracking and more accuracy.

We're waiting on the 400 series, which have been meant to be out "any day now" for over a year! But the SDK has gone public, and they're saying orders will open soon.

https://twitter.com/intel/status/766063343396356100

We were very disappointed with the current generation of RealSense devices. The next generation ones look good though - more based on the Tyzx acquisition.