Using a Kinect as a primary camera for drivers

[ekapalka]

Hello! I was wondering how we would go about streaming images from a Kinect which is plugged into an on-board computer to the driver station. I've been looking at TCP (using C++, because we're using C++ OpenCV) for sending both targeting data (just three floating point numbers) and video, but I'm not entirely sure where to begin. What have other teams done? Do they use 3rd party TCP/UDP/___ libraries or do they write their own? I guess if all else fails we can use the Axis Camera for the driver and simply send targeting data to the cRIO via NetworkTables (or the C++ equivalent). It's bugging me. All the vision processing I've learned so far has just been on my personal computer, because I know that actually sending that information to the cRIO is going to be a challenge of it's own. Any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated!