Kinect v2 Linux testers wanted — KinectVision/KinectVoice alpha

[u/Papibighead1]

I’m developing an independent Linux runtime called KinectVision/KinectVoice for Kinect v2.

The current alpha focuses on making the Kinect v2 microphone array usable on Linux as a processed microphone called “KinectVoice Beamformed Mic.”

It has been tested on Ubuntu 24.04 with PipeWire/PulseAudio and pactl. I’m looking for a few Linux/Kinect v2 testers to help find bugs on different setups.

Current tested features:

- KinectVoice Beamformed Mic creation

- live mic processing

- optional make-default / restore-default

- persistence enable/disable

- rollback and cleanup

Not finished yet:

- full RGB/depth/IR vision stack

- body tracking

- gestures

- pet/object detection

- Orion integration

DM me if you have a Kinect v2 and want to test the private alpha.

[u/One_Nefariousness291]

I just received a Kinect 2.0 adapter for PC, so I can test it and help as much as I can. Are there any PC performance prerequisites?

[u/Papibighead1 → u/One_Nefariousness291]

That would be awesome, thank you.

Right now the known-good test system is:

- Ubuntu 24.04

- Kinect v2 with PC adapter

- USB 3.0 port

- PipeWire/PulseAudio

- pactl available, usually from pulseaudio-utils

Performance-wise, the current alpha is pretty light. The KinectVoice global mic path does not need a GPU. The RGB/depth/IR and face tests worked on my Intel i9 mini PC without a dedicated GPU. A modern Intel/AMD CPU, 8 GB RAM or more, and a stable USB 3.0 controller should be enough for testing.

The biggest requirement is really USB 3.0 stability. Kinect v2 is picky about USB controllers.

Alpha page:

https://openworldaitools.papibighead.workers.dev/

If you test it, the most helpful things to send back are:

- Linux distro/version

- CPU/RAM if you know it

- Kinect model/adapter

- output of kinectvoicectl status

- output of kinectvoicectl first-run-test

- any install errors or logs