?OpenNI > PrimeSense NITE Middleware


PrimeSense NITE Middleware are modules for OpenNI providing gesture and skeleton tracking. They are released only as binaries. This wiki page describes how to install the PrimeSense NITE Middleware on Debian systems. This page serves as the homepage of the Debian package primesense-nite-nonfree.

Installation

First install the packages, then install the package generated by primesense-nite-nonfree:

apt-get install openni openni-sensor-primesense-kinect primesense-nite-nonfree
dpkg -i /var/cache/primesense-nite-nonfree/openni-module-primesense-nite-nonfree_1.3.1.5-1_i386.deb

End User License Agreement of the !PrimeSense NITE Middleware

The Debian package primesense-nite-nonfree have this warning in the package description:

WARNING: Installing this Debian package causes the
PrimeSense NITE modules to be downloaded from www.primesense.com
The End User License Agreement of NITE modules 
is available at www.primesense.com.

The OpenNI/PrimeSense people seem to regularly change the architecture of their site, breaking the download links. Here is a small history of some of the download links:

URL32="http://www.openni.org/downloadfiles/opennimodules/openni-compliant-middleware-binaries/latest-unstable/112-primesense-nite-unstable-build-for-ubuntu-10-10-x86-32-bit-v1-3-1/download"
URL64="http://www.openni.org/downloadfiles/opennimodules/openni-compliant-middleware-binaries/latest-unstable/112-primesense-nite-unstable-build-for-ubuntu-10-10-x86-64-bit-v1-3-1/download"
#
URL32="http://www.openni.org/downloads/nite-bin-linux-x86-v1.5.2.21.tar.bz2"
URL64="http://www.openni.org/downloads/nite-bin-linux-x64-v1.5.2.21.tar.bz2"
#
URL32="http://www.openni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NITE-Bin-Linux-x86-v1.5.2.21.tar.zip"
URL64="http://www.openni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NITE-Bin-Linux-x64-v1.5.2.21.tar.zip"