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Installing the Kinect 4 Unreal plug-in

Installing the Kinect 4 Unreal plug-in

From the course: TouchDesigner & Unreal: Interactive Controllers

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Installing the Kinect 4 Unreal plug-in

- [Instructor] Now we're going to take a look at how we can interface a Kinect sensor with the Unreal Engine, and this way we can use the body tracking capabilities of the Kinect to move objects around interactively in Unreal. So, if you need the hardware and software set up with your computer, first thing you should do is reference chapter three video one where we talk about the drivers needed and the hardware setup just to get Kinect working with your PC. So, once that's all set up and working what you're going to do is you're going to over to the Opaque media website right here, and we're going to download the Unreal plugin that will allow us to interface with the Kinect. We're using Unreal 4.14 for this course, and that's the latest version here so we're going to go ahead and download that. All right, so the plugin is downloaded. Here we're going to open it up and see what we've got. So, we've got this one little zip file, I'm going to close my browser here. And so what we're…

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