Kinect Won't work

Biolore · January 12, 2012, 7:55pm

I installed the Kinect Beta, the Microsoft Visual 2010 C# Express, and it won’t work with the skeletal veiwer or the driver station.

When I open the skeletal viewer, I get the message “Could not create DIrect3D surface. Please ensure the DirectX runtime is instelled.” So I installed the DirectX runtime, but I get the same error.

What do?

RufflesRidge · January 12, 2012, 7:56pm

Try the Skeletal Viewer - WPF example instead.

Biolore · January 12, 2012, 7:58pm

The Kinect Sample game sort of works though, so I don’t know whats up.

RufflesRidge · January 12, 2012, 8:00pm

The Skeletal Viewer example (non-WPF version) uses hardware DirectX acceleration. If your graphics card doesn’t support the necessary features, it won’t run.

Biolore · January 13, 2012, 5:22pm

So… What is the wpf and where can I get it?

Also, showdn’t the netbook be able to use the kinect if it’s included in the kit?

RufflesRidge · January 13, 2012, 5:34pm

It can. Use the Skeletal Viewer WPF example located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Kinect\v1.0 Beta2\Samples\bin

Biolore · January 13, 2012, 5:59pm

Ok, so that worked, but the driver station still can’t find the kinect

RufflesRidge · January 13, 2012, 6:01pm

Have you installed the Kinect Server? It can be found in the WPILib project at firstforge.wpi.edu if not.