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I am currently just using clear poly.

Since I am using the IR feed, many "shiny" things are of no concern since they are reflecting (humanly) visible light. The biggest issue comes for light sources that produce IR light (e.g. incandescent bulbs). However, this is not hard to deal with since you can easily filter out small object and setup the algorithm to only look for rectangles.

I am using the retroreflective tape to find the target and then I look at the gaffers tape for the depth (the black stuff on the inside). It's not perfect yet, but I think I can sharpen it up a bit.

I did get OpenKinect to work on Windows, but it took some doing. After I used CMake to generate a VisualStudio solution, I had to go through and build each project individually (skipping some since I didn't care about them). And there were some stupid errors like it would try to build a C++ project as a C project, so I would have to set the projects as C++ manually. But...it did finally work.