Shooting point cloud video with a Kinect on a Mac has gotten a lot easier. In this tutorial I show you how I'm using an Xbox Kinect v2 with FreeNect and TouchDesigner to capture depth data and create point cloud video effects. I go through the setup and some of the new FreeNect features, then show a few different ways to work with and style the point cloud. I also compare the Kinect v2 to the Orbbec Femto Mega.
Project files and a deeper dive into the effects are available on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/DeanCheesman
My Freenect fork on GitHub: https://github.com/dcheesman/FreenectTD
Stosumarte’s original Freenect repo: https://github.com/stosumarte/FreenectTD
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