How good is an Xbox Kinect Sensor for VR?

Surprisingly, it works really well... after some tinkering of course.

Hello everyone, I'm back after another 8 months (now 10 months) of not posting to bring you one of my most ambitious videos to make so far, and It all started with $20 (Thanks Byron!).

Lets get into the credits:
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All music from the in YouTube Audio Library
Most sounds from the YouTube Audio Library (Seriously YouTube? You guys have the sound of a toilet lid closing quietly, but not the sound of a doorbell)
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Thank you all for watching, this video wouldn't be possible without you.

[TheGoIdCat]

If you have any questions feel free to ask them! I will try to help out as much as I can.

[LifeBeLifeingPodCast]

I’m in the process of connecting 8 Xbox kinects and programming them to all work together to allow your real combat movement to work in my vr game so what ever you can do in real life it will be put in the game at real time

[attlePug]

This guy really deserves more subs, the amount of effort alone put into the editing on this video is outstanding. Earned a sub from me.

[WurstPeterl]

I was genuinely surprised to see the low subscriber count after watching this video. The production quality made me think it was from a much larger channel.

[warfu_]

Update: A year ago I was deciding whether to go through this, or not, with my Kinect(wrote another comment) and I did. K2VR evolved, seems like the new one (Amethyst) improved the tracking because it ended up being really good, it's effective enough for a newbie like me with VR Chat! Even though its still the least recommended camera for it (for 360 Kinect), can say it was worth it. It decalibrates often, like yours, but still great! Thanks for the video again!

[rocketdog]

Bro this was so professionally made and a good video
only 103 subs? well...
104 now lol

[warfu_]

Great editing!!! Sounds like a really simple summary of your experience but comes to a conclusion fast enough, best one to watch :3 I was wondering about this for days because I practically stopped using the Kinect on my Xbox since its games are no longer of interest to me, so now that I have it, I'll keep thinking if I go through the same stuff you did. Thanks!

[TheSmileysCrew]

Funny enough, I wanted to do this exact thing, cause cash and my brother had headsets, but I didn’t want to blow several hundred dollars on one. I saw a video where There was some Russian guy who was working on the less polished version of this. Either way, good on you for actually putting in the work to set all this up.

[golden]

I'm thinking of buying a Kinect myself, I've thought of wearing contrasting colors to help the Kinect see better. Maybe try that too help it track better!

[BlindNostalgia]

This video was really well done, hope to see you put out more. Your editing is really good and interesting to watch, only suggestion I have is maybe a bit better on audio mixing, the music would play over you sometimes.

[joeatron]

and my friends called me crazy when I suggested this very idea, now I can prove that I have a basis to stand on

[isaacm]

only 100 subs for this content! u deserve more

[dissonanceparadiddle]

There's a program that smooths out your motion data that might help give you even more of a good track.

[irishexclusives]

very reminiscent of ThrillSeekers youtube vids i love it

[urbnctrl]

Have you looked at the dual Kinect setup? It makes LEAPS in improvement and allows 360 degree mocap too - I would say it can easily compete with Vive or Rokoko tracking suits/pucks.

[CMMANDR_ZER]

The Xbox 360 Kinect is surprisingly better for motion tracking.

[thatautogarage]

Should've just spent the money on driver4vr, works much better without all the frustration. Also you'll notice that your kinect skeleton was looking kind of jank when calibrating, make sure it's not elevated too high and also too much light can cause this. I'm 6'4" and have mine positioned roughly 5'5'' from the ground and approximately 4-6 feet way when using it.

[EERIE_OREO]

I was thinking about doing this with my vr headset but idk if the kinect was really worth it, because I lost the stupid bluetooth adapter thing for my vive trackers and playing some game like b&s feel incomplete without the fullbody

[ElMatero]

Would it be possible to take data from amethyst and get live mocap data in blender for motion tracking

[lilian]

Do you have any recommandation on how to set it up correctly in room? I've had a issue where feet or leg was shaking, a foot was little bit higher than the other one, do you know at what height I need to put kinect and maybe the degree ?