What is the difference between OpenNI and OpenKinect?

Question

I am considering using Kinect in one my projects, but I am totally lost between all the libraries. Don\'t know what is what exactly. Most importantly I am reading stuff about Op

Answer 1

Although this question is years ago, I would like to add something I know.

I am pretty amateur, therefore getting Kinect to work on Mac was always difficult for me. I downloaded the code from github and followed multiple instructions but I couldn't get it to work properly. I remember, around 10 months ago, I got the Kinect, OpenNI work on Mac, but it was very unstable. The glview sample program did show depth and color images from Kinect, but it failed every now and then.

Recently, I found out a guy created a homebrew formula for openni (1 and 2), together with NiTE and libfreenect. I tried and it worked flawlessly on Mavericks 10.9.2 + 10.9.3, so if you haven't got the Kinect working properly, have a look at: https://github.com/totakke/homebrew-openni