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Getting Windows 10 to recognise xbox 360 kinect as a webcam

Anonymous
2020-03-29T10:52:45+00:00

Dear All,

With the current situation (COVID-19) I am setting up a home office.  Everything is great accept the webcam issue (all sold out in the shops etc).  I have pulled out an old xbox 360 Kinect and have had some success with installing it.  

I have the drivers installed:

and can get my ugly mug to appear through OpenNI Virtual CAM

Windows 10 pics up the mic and I can record sound etc.  But it does not detect a camera.  The camera app, skype, zoom etc do not detect anything.

I have spent the last couple of evenings trying to get this to work to no avail.  I have searched far and wide on these forums and reddit and tried several potential solutions but none have worked.

It is frustrating because I can get a picture it just seems like some stupid setting is stopping this from happening.

I have tried both Kinect SDK ver 1.7 and 1.8.  Currently have 1.7 installed.

Any support or suggestions would be great.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-04-20T23:34:48+00:00

    https://youtu.be/OIuColFelvI

    I know this may not be what you‘re looking for, but i was running into similar problems trying to build my SLS camera. This is thee only video where i have had success in completing my build. Hope it helps!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-24T19:22:49+00:00

    I got Teams and Google Meets working on my Microsoft Kinect 360 with the combination of OBS Studio

    https://obsproject.com/

    And this plugin for OBS studio

    https://github.com/SirLynix/obs-kinect/releases

    I used version 0.3.

    I also installed Kinect SDK 1.7

    After that you can add kinectsource as a source in OBS Studio, you then already see the kinect video result in OBS studio. When you have that ready just click on "Start Virtual Camera". After that I have the OBS Virtual Camera in Teams and other programs. I also use the sound.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-08T10:06:59+00:00

    I have managed to get it to work with skype using the details in this forum (however it doesn't work with MS teams etc)

    Can-now-use-kinect-camera-with-skype

    I had to remove all the recent Kinect SDK and only use KinectSDK-v1.0-beta2-x64 to register the KinectCam.ax and now in Skype I can see Kinect Cam option

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-18T13:06:00+00:00

    Hi all,

    So the video Jeff posted above got me so far (do all the bits she suggests). The big bit though that helped is this guy's how-to: 

    http://jqinteresting.blogspot.com/2016/11/how-to-turn-your-xbox-360-kinect-sensor.html

    At time of writing I have the Kinect recognised as my camera and mic in Zoom. It should also work in Skype and some other platforms, but not Teams as far as I can tell.

    1.8 works for me btw - not tried other versions.

    Hope this helps!

    Cheers,

    Ben

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-05T12:13:48+00:00

    Yeah, this is really annoying! I started from scratch not being particularly tech savvy.

    NOTHING recognises it as a camera though the audio works?!

    jqinteresting blog didn't work though it helps with the SDK and the drivers (kinectcam.ax) so it's a good starting point to get the camera up and running.

    The Kinectcam download doesn't seem to be available anymore on the Chinese site.

    If anyone has a working link to that?

    I've got it working in a free video suite called OBS but only by using the window from SDK and cropping it. Then using a plugin called Virtual Cam which apparently should work with Skype...but I can't get it working! So I'm pretty much where OP is. It's been a world of pain!

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