Of course Achim beat me to it [url]http://www.vimeo.com/17211596[/url]
but here’s my quick and dirty way to hook the kinect up to Touch…
[url]http://www.vimeo.com/17211596[/url]
I had to squish and move things to make the camera and rangefinder images match up but it’s good enough for rock&roll (to to misuse a guitar-tuning term)
touch_kinect.5.toe (8.66 KB)
[url]http://www.vimeo.com/17221217[/url]
TUIO have a kinect thing going. right now, there’s only a mac binary but the code is there if you are so inclined. 
(TUIO send data using OSC messages so touch could handle that nicely for applications where you don’t wish to handle the actual video from the kinect in Touch, just the numbers)
Exciting work guys!
Wow! Very interesting to know about it! Can you tell how you have connected the kinect to computer, what drivers did you use? Is there any issues with connector cable? Is it included?
YEAH! I can’t wait to try it!
i used Kinect-v14-withsource from here: ajaxorg.posterous.com/
There’s an exe that gives you 3 windows, you can use the (slow) screengrab TOP to get the depth data from one of the windows into touch and then you just select the red channel. You can also use the cl nui driver, which is easier to install, but I couldn’t get a usable grayscale z-image out of it.
just to confirm, I used the CL NUI driver with the example I posted above. By changing it to monochrome after keying out far background ‘colors’, I got an okay depth map. However, as you can see in the video I posted on vimeo, past a certain distance away form the camera, it started indicating a shorter range again. aslo, the normal camera and the depthmap camera are not exactly the same size so I had to resize one of them to get things to match up better in touch.
I’ll have a go at the openkinect driver soon. gotta fry some other fish at the moment.
Rod.
hey guys=)
is usb connector included in the standart kinect box? or i need to buy it separate?
it’s included
can you show how your usb cable looks like? I’ve talked to manager in the internet store and he said that there is no usb cable in the pakage…
I’ve figured out, all Kinect’s in our country are from the bundle with the latest xbox with kinect port… so now ican’t buy stand alone kinect with power adapter with USB, only kinect itself 
looks like this one
usb it’s part of the power cable and it came with the box