Apple is shutting down OpenNI

Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by MrQuincle on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:21PM (#7306960)

It's just what Ben Farrell predicted: http://www.benfarrell.com/2013/11/28/primesense-purchased-by....

Apparently I have to buy something with a fruit symbol on it, to be able to develop for 3D sensors in the future...

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by esonderegger on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:51PM (#7307196)

This is when I'm especially thankful for open source licenses. The OpenNI2 repository on github currently has 148 forks:

https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI2

I've been using OpenNI2 with ROS and an ASUS Xtion Pro Live for object detection and avoidance. What I think the community is missing is missing right now isn't really on the software side, but is good, cheap, hardware. I'd be thrilled if I could buy a Carmine or something like it from Apple, but I don't see how it makes any business sense.

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by nickbauman on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @03:52PM (#7307677)

The NITE driver is what matters, though. OpenNI is just a wrapper and an API.

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by lucian1900 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:34PM (#7307072)

There's Google's Project Tango [0] as well.

0. http://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by MrQuincle on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:49PM (#7308211)

Yes, Tango is cool, but I think everybody on the earth tried to get a kit. :-) I did. So not much luck getting that soon. Just now I'm working on the Leap to control my television. :-)

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Re:Apple is shutting down OpenNI by rasz_pl on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:39AM (#7311074)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274204

basically build your own Tango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E35xbo3r8rA https://github.com/nymanjens/ardrone-exploration

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