Building a $20 Motion Capture Studio with a Kinect

[@BigBadBeaver]

Hope you guys enjoyed. If you have any advice on using Rokoko's Blender plugin, let me know here or in my Discord server :)

[@WheatIsBetterThanBeetroot]

Are you still active

[@Cobey_Smith]

you deserve more subscribers

[@mbattee]

Very informative video. Thanks for posting it. I am amazed that you were able to make the 360 kinect (v1) work with the Windows SDK 2.0 which was more compatible with and perhaps even made for the xbox one's kinect. I couldn't, so I had to use Windows SDK 1.8 made for the 360 kinect. Brekel Body even provides it as an option for install. All the other info was spot on. Thanks, again.

[@dababyrapjesus]

just use 2

[@vansapha789]

I use 2 Kinects, the result is perfect. I can turn round my body 360 degree. Just need more space of room.

[@TheExFatal]

currently I have only one x360 kinect, how do you position them? one in front and one on the side?

[@ytubeanon]

pretty sure people would like a tutorial, written even

[@alan112223]

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[@Joelmorellano]

I would love a tutorial on that as well , haha

[@xaby996]

heavy doubt.

[@theeddytor3490]

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[@BigBadBeaver]

appreciate the feedback :)

[@moosehead13]

1:27 I love you bro!!! LOLL. First time watcher and there was a hit of the lul but wasn't ready for this. Life is good with content like this. You heal my soul sir!

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production value is good, and your personality and humor is perfect for informative yet entertaining videos. i subscribe and ill stay subscribed as long as you keep up the quality content!

[@BigBadBeaver]

Thank you for the support ❤

[@SatoshiAR]

Hey! I remember learning this trick years ago from following Hyper & Maxofs2d's videos back in the day. Glad to see a more in-depth video on it.

[@BeastMaster11-me1nb]

Bought a new Kinect camera adapter the other day just to play it again. Just started learning Blender a week ago, and today this video popped up.

[@AllanSavolainen]

New title required, Brekel body now costs 179USD, so motion capture will today cost 200USD with this setup.

[@slippingjimmys]

What absolute rats

[@AGONYAFTEREFFECTS]

I don’t understand why companies do this bs like 2 years ago tons of free ai-Kinect stuff but nope just paywall everything

[@AllanSavolainen]

@@AGONYAFTEREFFECTS That is the easy way, first free, get customers, become widely used tool, then paywall it and some customers have to pay

[@namuzed]

I can relate to the setup issues. Getting it to connect consistently required some kind of voodoo.

[@indieartsmidwest4042]

I've owned my kinect for about 5 years and just recently purchased Skanect. It's been a great asset so for scanning objects and environments. I've been on the fence for years about Brekel Kinect but their multi cam setup looks solid. Three sensors would be great but at least two allows seamless front to back tracking. I also bought the nyko zoom but barely use it because the result are mediocre. Yeah it helps a bit with zoom but the kinect still has a finite depth distance. Also, after owning one for so long, I find any ghost hunting video using these becomes a comedy.

[@BigBadBeaver]

Nyko zoom results are typically bad from what I understand because Brekel’s algorithm is expecting normal kinect field of view

[@indieartsmidwest4042]

@@BigBadBeaver You make a good point so I'll just generalize that most kinect software is expecting standard FOV. Also consider dabbling with the coding for these. Majority of the concepts for brekel are in a book called "Kinect Open Source Programming Secrets". Beyond using the mine for 3d scanning, that's the direction I'm going.

[@andreybagrichuk5365]

Amazign turorial mate, totally out of the box thingking

[@DigitalAndInnovation]

It was funny because as soon as you mentioned "the connect" I was saying "good god" but then the "oh brother" line came in and I was like- well with that realization out of the way- lets go.

[@mikerusby]

This is awesome, thanks. i will give it a try tomorrow :)

[@faridmohdismail31]

i did explore using xbox one cameras, faced similar issue as u, and dont have a large space, and mostly gave up.. but what u have is good, congrats

[@HumbleHerman]

I have 8 Kinects and Brekel v3 ... for capture of multiple figures ... and no idea how to put it together yet. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a whirl with 4 or 5 people!

[@silvern0va]

I'd be really interested in if the Xbox One Kinect would be better since it does have a better camera in it. Perhaps a friend has one you can borrow? They came with the original Xbox One, I'm pretty sure even I have one laying around somewhere.

[@BigBadBeaver]

From what I read, the Xbox One Kinect, even though on paper it sounds like it would perform better, doesn't really have any major improvements on Windows due to the SDK still utilizing code meant for the 360 Kinect. Would be an interesting test though...

[@VioFax]

@@BigBadBeaver This is really stupid considering they dropped support for the kinect 1 in the new SDK...

[@cyqry]

@@BigBadBeaver I've got a two-Kinect setup, I was initially using different software that no longer exists so I am considering swapping to Brekel Body. You mentioned the Kinect you had suffering from pretty limited resolution, field of view and framerate. The V2 improves on all of these aspects, I believe its either 720 or 1080p resolution in 16:9 aspect ratio and its framerate to my knowledge is 60fps. Not huge improvements but given the hardware you were working with here, its an improvement... and I found mine for £40 each if you include the cables needed to connect it to PC. Compared to other Motion Capture solutions, its well worth the price given the improvement it has over the original Kinect. My only issue is that it still suffers from the "hand behind back" issue, though with two connected this should be mitigated... the software I used originally was able to handle two Kinect inputs, I'm not sure if Brekel does or not.

[@itsmariaprod]

This is making me hopeful that I can actually do mocap with low cost

[@NeedlessNick]

I would try to grab an xbox one kinect, should be around the same price point but was big leap in capabilities as well as support for it in terms of the programs that would use Kinects as sensors!

[@Turgineer]

Using 2 Kinect is said to greatly increase accuracy, but 5:32 a much larger room will be required as Kinect has a very narrow field of view.

[@SaintMatthieuSimard]

It would be so amazing that all those new video to mocap AIs would take advantage of Kinect 1, 2 and azure so to resolve this "arm in the back" issue.

[@bhargavapothakamuri4218]

Bro what a quality video !

[@LaurynasSFM]

You should try iPi Soft and get a 2nd Kinect.

[@TheCunningStunt]

Something to note. The Xbox 360 Kinect is only 640x480 on the camera, and I think is 640x640 on the 3D scanner. However I believe the Windows 360 Kinect is higher resolution despite being identical to the 360's in every other way. The Xbox One Kinect is 1080P. So if you can, try and get the Windows Kinect or Xbox One Kinect for better results.

[@iYonga]

is XBOX One kinect compatible with all the software? It also only has one camera right?

[@ElGranCharkikan]

i tried miku miku capture last week, was fun im still tryin to figure out a facial and motion capture with kinect

[@KUREHA3D]

how did that go for you?

[@workinprogress2077]

this software has been around for a while. you have to use 3 or more kinects.

[@nikolaikostka7632]

This video is fantastic and informative but I have a question. How does this compare to using a regular camera and then adding the joints in post? My brother has a very good ape impression and I want to take his motion and turn him into an ape. I want him to be able to interact with things like furniture and people. In your opinion or of anyone reading this, should I record with the connect in addition to my camera or just do the camera and add the joint? Or possibly a third option that I'm not thinking of? Thanks a ton!

[@Jay-Dub-Ay]

There’s something about the tone of this video that reminds me of a Reality show on MTV lol

[@良佳ひろふみ]

I can't get the kinect sensor work with my laptop 😢 Apparently, it is a common problem, something to do with the USB controller in many laptop/PC's bios 🤔

[@mikhailstarovich2017]

Thank you bro. Your work so goodness. 😊

[@ared18t]

Kinect didn't fail because of gamers it failed because it wasn't implemented that well into games. My memories of the Kinnect were nothing but good ones.

[@UndeadNuclearGamer]

No idea if this would even work BUT... what if you setup 3 or 4 Kinects pointing towards your front, sides and back. Link them somehow to get the maximum amount of input data 🤔

[@TheCunningStunt]

The most I've seen any software support is 2 kinects. And considering the age of the Kinect many of the apps that allow motion capture haven't been updated in a long time.

[@xaby996]

for more cameras you can use the playstation 4/5 cameras. some softwares support it

[@RealCreavis]

Rn kinects near me are 4$ each gonna pick up 4 of them for an amazing system

[@PulseMotionProduction]

ik retarget the size of the mocap bones to the model's bones you retargeting to

[@Ian_Paneque]

Brekel Body is paid....

[@TheCunningStunt]

yeah that has been my issue with many of these old paid Kinect Apps. Once you buy them it all adds up and for the total you might as well invest that money in a modern day solution. All of Brekels products combined, which could have been in a single app, are $300USD, which is $470aud in my local currency. I could buy a Quest VR headset for that. Not a good option if you're trying to do this on the cheap to save money.

[@yellingatmeVT]

I'm trying to learn if this will work for a stream setup. Has anyone figured out how to combine 360 with VMC while also having the true game of the Xbox working? Like splitting the feed somehow of the sensor data and using it specifically for live mocap? Maybe average webcam data with the Kinect data due to the limitations of the frame rate?

[@R00kTruth]

if you're installing, after you've installed the drivers, Reboot. if you run into trouble, unplug and reconnect. and again Reboot. as for capturing, I can not help, you will have to follow this young man's advice. As I've taken a different route, Programming, but why? Well to avoid the issues, to find new issues hey its a learning curve right? however as I explained to everyone, when you use other peopels software, you always have to learn something new.... if you program your own, then you should know what the hell is going on, also, I have seen many people having problems with 3rd party software v1 v2, they'll program some filters, have the kinect running through soo many source outputs when finally it reaches obs, and the frames drop even more- well this can help, if you know how to program, you can have your own Window(s) that streams and saves whilst applying the filters ontop.. and of course you're not bounded by what you can achieve, meaning whatever language you decide to use you have complete full access to all libraries that you wish to include. anyways thay is my 2 cents. have a great one guys. keep up the good work young man.

[@gabrielgoomez5722]

Very good video and content Você me deu boas ideias para o futuro, muito obrigado 🇧🇷👏

[@mikerusby]

I thinjk maybe a lot of the issues are caused by the re targeting. I tried to retarget to a rigify setup and initially had to carefully match the joints or it just went a bit weird, but I got it working fine now. ( the rokoko auto build list was far from perfect) I am hoping that by using the rigify rig for retargeting that i can do some addional tweaks using the Ik

[@Headboardmoto]

Anyone that is going to try this; #1 download the SDK before ever plugging in the kinnect after the software is downloaded #2 restart DONT PLUG IT IN YET launch the sdk libary store then close out of it shutdown your computer completely #3 now plug in the connect and turn on your computer. This will make the intial setup gp smoothly, I havent done alot of movo yet but I do build alot of SLS cams for ghost hunting. Since doing it this way I have had ZERO (Knock on wood) issues with having to play with drivers.

[@kingthehacker9061]

will this work with xbox one kinect?

[@gone7512]

Can the program work with 2 kinects setup to fix the the issue of your body occluding your arms and legs in certain poses?

[@patrykjp2]

Hey, just wondering why did you buy the 360 one instead of the later versions like the one for Xbox one or pc?

[@KUREHA3D]

jw if it matters which kinect i'm using? amazon only offers the xbox one kinect. is the workflow the same?

[@unknownusrname]

I don't have 45 000 rands to dump on such a thing yet

[@unlabeled1579]

hi, is it possible to connect multiple xbox one kinects for motion capture?

[@spikerthedragonbear]

It is! (Tho I only seen this on brekel body 3, not sure about 1) this helps the program have a more 3D view even mixing kinects and cameras (only on 3)

[@youngs912]

This guy doesn’t reply

[@fazilfazil5269]

Why do you not use deep motion that's awesome website because you don't want any kind of suits or any tracking points you just need a camara/phone camera thats enough just shot a video register in deep motion upload the video and select what kind mocap you want (like face tracking,body tracking,upper body,lower body) and your video is ready.

[@АнатолийСтетюха-х2б]

if deep motion was free, then I would agree with you

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[@АнатолийСтетюха-х2б]

@@fazilfazil5269 you are right, but this is very little, even to get acquainted with the program, let alone work

[@vegastandalone7762]

Does Brekel allows to use 2 Kinects v1 at the same time for better recording?

[@zprotz]

really cool video

[@Shikkadance]

Where have you gone?

[@vivianwarran8804]

Thank you for sharing. If what you used doesn't capture facial expressions, then what do you use for facial mocap?

[@aubreymorgan9763]

iphones are often used for facial capture both in professional and hobby settings. I have no idea about blender, but in Unreal Engine you can link your iphone as a face capture with Live Link Face. you'd need iphone 10 or above because they have an IR face scanning thing, android does not have this ability.

[@zenosyeetgalvus]

Live link on iPhone and faceit to rig anything in blender for mocap. You’re screwed without an iPhone basically

[@Thingmie]

Does anyone know how i would turn myself into a video gsme character and make it do my actions

[@cloudboysmusic5223]

seen people getting near perfect results with 3 kinect azure but thats 1.5-2k setup 😅

[@Thraakull]

20 dollars huh - I am wondering, any chance of having more cameras to capture from more angles? Or there is no chance that it would work at all?

[@TheExFatal]

somebody in the comments said they're using 2 kinects and that allows them 360 movement tracking

[@TheCunningStunt]

$20, plus at least $75usd more for the required software.

[@deluxe_1337]

Xbox one kinect or Xbox 360 kinect? Which would be better because I can get either or for $20. I'd assume the Xbox one kinect but I am on edge about it.

[@cyqry]

Xbox One Kinect has a higher resolution and higher framerate. Its also a big brick, I don't know the quality of the 360 version but I'm really not worried about breaking the Xbox One version any time soon.

[@xaby996]

xbone

[@phoenixastra4429]

wait is this not pc only? It's xbox?

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[@Nivan156]

Hey am trying to use a kinect with a windows 11. I can't seem to get it to work. Anyone has ideas ?

[@angellopezrodriguez3417]

I have the same problem with w11, I get an unsupported device. I use the kinect v1

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[@BigBadBeaver]

i've spent the last 2 days trying to come up with a reply to this comment but i just can't.

[@Pvt.punchy]

Does it have to be a Kinect for Windows or can it be a normal XBox Kinect

[@BigBadBeaver]

You can use either. In this video I used the Xbox 360 version of the Kinect

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