Quote - There seems to be a lot of people unsure of kinect functionality, not just in poserverse. From what I've been reading off various forums is that the xbox kinect will sometimes work on the windows sdk, but not natively and there's no official support for it. Others say it works just fine. Some have claimed burn-outs of a lens adjust feature. 

I use the kinect for 3d scanning since quite a while and I know some other people who do similar things. We did not have problems with the XBOX Kinect and the Microsoft SDK, as long as there are no OpenNI-Drivers around.

OpenNI is the open source framework for the kinect which started to evolve before Microsoft published it's own SDK and anounced the first Kinect for Windows. If you have OpenNI on your machine, the Primesense driver will be used for the Kinect, and the Microsoft SDK won't find the Kinect. If that's the case you will have to remove the drivers from your system before installing the SDK. 

I haven't seen any burned out lenses or stuff like that. Most people start with the XBOX Kinect since you can get an used one very cheap on Ebay.

If Poser would support the Kinect V2 at some time, it would be great. The V2 needs Windows 8, but it has a much better depth sensor and can even capture finger movements with ease. The V1 Kinect cannot do that.

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