Intro

This project is intended for those who wish to use an XBox One Kinect (Kinect v2) as a head-tracking source for games supported by the "opentrack" project.

The opentrack project is located here: http://github.com/opentrack/opentrack

Requirements

You will need a few things

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (To build the executable)
• Microsoft Kinect SDK V2: here
• Microsoft Kinect V2 Sensor
  • With the official PC USB adapter kit
  • Or with USB power mod (Google search "modify kinect for pc")

Setup

Assuming you have opentrack installed and KinectV2OpenTrack built

• First open up opentrack and set the input to UDP with a port of 4242 and pitch +90.
• Next simply connect up the Kinect v2 sensor and run KinectV2OpenTrack.exe
• A console should appear and if all is working the Kinect should light up and tracking will begin.
• Select an output for your purposes in opentrack and start.

Notes and Thanks

This was a quick one day project for me as I wanted some headtracking solution and had a modded Kinect V2 laying around. It works better than I thought it would even in low light! Personally I use it to play Elite Dangerous with and it should be good enough tracking for most cockpit based games.

It ended up being easier than I thought to get tracking up and running with open track.

• So big thanks to the opentrack team as the UDP interfacing was straight forward and their program is helpful and easy to use.
• Also Thanks to Microsof for the SDK and examples that made this code easy to make.