The development company prime sense that for the technology of Microsoft's Kinect camera is responsible, has teamed with the company Willow Garage and Side-kick official open source drivers for the 3D camera for Windows and Linux (Ubuntu, version 10.10) published . What had previously been some independent programmers have already succeeded , now gets the official blessing of the manufacturer. Even Microsoft now seems to have recognized the potential of the inventor-scene is, for the motion control means Kinect to develop new ideas, and actively supports them.

The driver not only allow access to the audio, video and depth sensors Kinect the camera, but include a complete, OpenNI (Open Natural Interaction) called API. This suggests including a bridge to PrimeSense NITE middleware , with a vector skeleton lay person can be videotaped so that a motion capture in real time is possible. Add to that the recognition of hand gestures and voice commands as well as a so-called Scene Analyzer, which detects the foreground figures and the background removed. Besides Kinect OpenNI is also other 3D cameras prime sense of support. The source code and a large library with programming examples can be under Welcome to OpenNI | www.openni.org retrieve. By publishing companies are hoping to gain a boost for the open-source development in the motion detection and gesture control of 3D cameras.