Kinect on LÖVE

[middlerun]

Using a Kinect with LÖVE would be the best thing ever. Is it possible?

[BlackBulletIV]

In theory I should think so. The developers would just need to plug in the OpenKinect library to Love somehow, and then create a kinect module or something.

[Jasoco]

As long as the drivers and libraries are available on OS X and Linux as well. Don't leave us out.

[nevon]

As long as the drivers and libraries are available on OS X and Linux as well. Don't leave us out.

It's available on Linux anyway. Don't know about Mac, but I would assume so.

[bartoleo]

bah...
I think that Kinect support without native 3d would be nothing more a mouse emulation

[BlackBulletIV]

bah...
I think that Kinect support without native 3d would be nothing more a mouse emulation

Quite a number of mice and voice control actually. But I do agree, 3D can make use of Kinect far better than 2D can.

[FierceForm]

If it were my decision, I would wait until Microsoft released their official API.

[BlackBulletIV]

But that API would be closed source I'm assuming (knowing Microsoft), and that may cause issues. Plus, it will be Windows only, knowing Microsoft and also knowing that it will be built into XNA. Therefore, I don't really think that's a good option for Love (if Kinect ever becomes a thing to implement).

[FierceForm]

People call SDL cross-platform, but it really just has an implementation for each platform, so how does using an API (that is possibly more stable and efficient) for one platform and a different API for other platforms not make it cross-platform? If it's XNA only, then obviously it's not even a reasonable option, since it's all built for .NET.

[BlackBulletIV]

Are you saying then, if the API is outside of XNA, the preferable option would be to use the Microsoft API for Windows, and the OpenKinect (I think that's what it's called) drivers for Mac and Linux? If so, that could work, as long as the API being closed source wouldn't be an issue.