Multi Players in Kinect World

Unity

Inspiration

We wanted to experience/learn with Microsoft Kinect for Windows V2, skeletal tracking, VR, and Unity

What it does

Allow multiple players with Kinects to interact/see each other in a virtual environment.

How we built it

Countless hours of looking up documentations and solving various problems due to deprecated features.

Challenges we ran into

We never got a chance to experience with the Oculus due to miscommunication with organizer :( .Only works on PC & Windows. Deprecated libraries. Microsoft drops support for Kinect V2 for Windows and it hasn't been updated since 2014 (the release of Windows 8). Synchronization among Kinect is super complicated and unsupported so we spent many hours messing with standard unity networking utility, websocket, NodeJS, and socket.io, etc

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Partially working synchronizing movement between Kinects

What we learned

Despite running into numerous problems due to deprecated libraries and problems due to unsupported Kinect, we thoroughly enjoyed hacking the Kinect and solving these challenges.We picked up various new technologies during this weekend and got a good glimse into VR as well as game development