Tracking

The main tracking device is Microsoft Kinect v2. As a general experience I made in the early stages of this project, I can report that Kinect v2 is very picky in terms of USB controllers.

Firstly the device only runs on USB 3.0 Ports. Secondly the USB 3.0 has to have a Chipset made by Intel or Renesas, other manufacturers (i.e. VIA) are not supported. For my home setup, I chose this USB 3.0 controller: http://goo.gl/6yULCG

My PCs is based on the Socket 775 plattform and therefore has no native USB 3.0 support. Furthermore the mainboard still uses the PciExpress 1 standard. That's important because being on this standard it is not enough to install the USB 3.0 controller in a PciEx x1 slot. It doesn't provide enough bandwith for the Kinect to work on it. You have to install the controller in, at least a PciEx x4 slot to make it work. The frame rat on my system is 30fps.

Right now there are two different approaches to connect the device to UE4:

1. Kinect 4 Windows v2 - Unreal Engine Plugin
2. FAAST (VRPN Server) - Kinect v2 Version

To be continued...