So, I was trying to obtain PCDs from the Kinect and in order to do so, I wanted to read something from the Kinect. Like I mentioned in the previous post, I had PCL and MSVC2010 installed. I had also obtained the latest version of OpenNI and SensorKinect to serve as drivers for the Kinect. And the following happened.

I had one line of code that initialises the Kinect and returns a pointer to grab data. It kept crashing at run-time and there was no stack trace. A little bit of googling led me to believe that OpenNI does not comply with my laptop’s underlying hardware.

Okay, *deep breaths* that is not a dead-end. There had to be something else. So I got Kinect Fusion installed from Microsoft site. And from the tutorials, all I needed to do was type one command line code and my Kinect would (magically?) start obtaining a PCD. Although what happened was a different story.

There was something wrong with my Graphics card. I tried installing the latest CUDA drivers from NVIDIA but that did not help too. I have an Intel 4000HD Graphics card on my laptop and I wonder if KinFu works only with NVIDIA Graphics cards which would mean I would have to start using another machine.

So, the plan for this week is to check if the Kinect works on another machine and start proceeding from there. I also have a bad ( and a good ) feeling that I might have missed installing something on my laptop and so I can get the Kinect working on my machine too. Will keep you posted.

All in all, the classic conclusion, Hardware and Software do not like each other.