Develop Kinect game using Unity

Question

I want to develop a game using Unity + Kinect, as I understand Unity does not support the official Kinect SDK so I have to find another way. I saw that some guys use ZigFu which seems to not have a good Documentation and has a $200 licence. Is there any other easy way to make things work between Kinect and Unity? If I choose to not use Unity, what other tools exist that support the official C# Kinect SDK to develop a game?

Answer 1

The Official Microsoft Kinect SDK should be easy to plug into the XNA Game Studio.

There should articles on the web and samples shipping with the SDK.

Unfortunately I haven't used the MS Kinect SDK since version 1.5. I'm hoping there are updated guides/tutorials available for the latest SDK.

UPDATE

One workaround would using multiple applications talking to each via a TCP/UDP socket (OSC is pretty easy to use for example). The idea is you use what you prefer for the kinect tracking, but send a list of coordinates for the joint's positions and orientations to unity.

Answer 2

You should see this unity thread. It states that you cannot use the Kinect SDK with Unity, as the frameworks are not correct. However that was a different version.

Actually, it says you can use it as this sample shows.

Note that there are many errors people seem to be having with it. I don't know how much of that is people having poor code and how much is with the SDK.