Plugins Kinect2VAM - Full body tracking on the cheap

Snappy and easy to set up! Any plans for face/finger tracking?

Okay, so I'm giving 5 stars since I think it's super cool that you made this possible. But I also want to warn other people trying this, as I did. The tracking is pretty crappy and I bought the Kinect second hand to try this, and and sending it back after toying with this for 10 minutes. If you want to use this to record some dancing motions (as was my plan) forget it, this is not the solution. But still, I really appreciate making this plugin for people who have one laying around collecting dust.

I've tried this and it works!!! No delays between real movement and vr person movement.
My kinect is very badly positioned and so I have issues with tracking the legs and feet. I will experiment further but this is nothing short of amazing.
I'm the process of researching this kinect to VaM thing I found out a project that translates kinect joints to vive pucks. The joints show up as vive pucks in steamVR. Also interesting. the project is named kinect2vr. It has a new releases called amethyst: https://github.com/KinectToVR/Amethyst-Releases. I've tried it and again, because my kinect is very badly positioned it doesn't track that well.
Anyway, I thought about something for your project that I think would be amazing to translate mocap into VaM. Why not, instread of your plugin receiving joint positions from kinect, do it from the output of OpenCV tracking the joint movements of either real life or from a file? Like I'm thinking of running opencv on a file, like that Sharon Stone iconic cross leg movie scene, and translating that to VaM!!

Really nice results. Thanks!

Works really well. A great app for the V2 Kinect which has a better FoV for my setup and I feel has better tracking (others claim the V1 is better but I disagree and that's a hardware issue anyway not this plugin).
It's simple to setup and use and allows almost anybody to do full body capture.
Thanks for all the work done on this great plugin.

It was easy to set-up and connected right away. Surprised in desktop mode how fluent it was however in VR I found the latency to be quite high and unless paired with Snug its kind of weird to Possess a character. Also, need to adjust Max Velocity, Spring and Damper settings to make it move better but its still laggy. Overall its a really clean and cool way to bring Kinect tracking into VAM. I see it used mostly for Mo-Cap standing right in front of the Kinect camera. The limitations of the Kinect don't really allow for "natural interactions" with another character in VR.

Definitely 5 stars for the effort and genious idea to bring a cheap MoCap alternative to everyone! Can´t thank you enough for this. We need way more MoCap performers and varity in VaM. Bringing the "art of MoCap" closer to beginners opens up an other door for creative minds around.

I can only imagine the furstration some people might have thinking "how can I bring my character to life? How can I make her move fast and easy"

Your pluging in a row with other fantastic plugins like Timeline giving a simple solution to everyone. Sure it has limitations. It´s obviously not the popular and most precise "vive tracking" for VaM but it is a great beginning!

We made some experiemtns with the Kinect V2 I guess 1,5 years ago. It was not successful because of the rough translation. Now with your plugin I bet its way more easy. Will experiment with it just for fun! Great job!

I'll be trying this today! Excited! I'll let you know how it goes! 5 stars just for the attempt no matter what, much appreciated!

Excellent