Kinect for XBox One and Brekel Pro Body V2 on VMWare Fusion 8 on Mac Running Windows 8.1

[Lyndon Castro]

 I bought Brekel Pro Body v2 and Face v2. First, to preface, the "Hands" version should be incuded!

Okay, need help. I need to record making crafts on tabletop, including audio, face, and HANDS. I have two machines:

1. a new PC with Windows 10 and I&, lots of memory, and Pro V2 programs work.

2. A Mac Pro i7, lots of memory, and VMWare Fusion 8 installed with Windows 8.a working.

3. I have 2 Kinects for Xbox One and 2 Windows for Kinect USB 3.0 connectors.

QUESTIONS:

1. How can I capture the craftmaking simultaneously with my equipment;

 -----> A. Both Kinects on the PC via a USB 3.0 hub, or;

 -----> B. One Kinect on PC and one Kinect on Mac running Fusion 8 VM and Windows 8.1?

 -----> C. I cant afford another PC because Mac virtual machine drivers for Kinect not supported. So, I need to record all THREE events of face, body, and hands separately on my PC, then composite them.

-----> D. ?????

PLEASE help. Thank You, Lyndon

[Brekel]

Hi Lyndon,


Pro Hands is a separate product so users have the choice.
Since not everybody needs to track everything or owns both Kinect and Leap Motion sensors.


You can run Pro Body v2 and Pro Face v2 simultaneously on a single machine, both using the same sensor.
Running Pro Hands at the same time on that machine should also be possible.

All software comes with "Record Triggering" functionality.
If you set one app to "Master" and the others to "Slave" they will synchronize recording start/stop and filenames.

Note that Pro Body & Face v2 can be run in headless mode so they don't use uneccesary resources for the GUI.
They'll use the last used settings from the GUI so this may be a good solution when running multiple apps and using "Remote Triggering".


Last time I checked the Kinect v2 is not supported in a virtual machine due to VM software not supporting DirectX11 and not being very efficient with high speed USB3 devices.
I haven't tried Pro Hands in a VM, a Leap Motion sensor generates a lot less data than a Kinect v2 (and processing doesn't run on the GPU) so it may actually work.
Bootcamp is known to work with perfectly fine btw.


Greets,