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First-time setup and calibration
Placing the Kinect in the right spot
Before using your Kinect, you should spend some time finding the best spot for it. This alone will improve your tracking a lot.
Depending on your setup, which Kinect you have, how tall you are and how much space you have, you'll be placing the Kinect differently.
The Kinect should be perpendicular to your playspace. This means not in a corner at an angle. Especially because headsets like Quest and Quest 2 do not allow for non 90-degree playspace orientation.
You want the Kinect around head height, it can be a bit lower for Kinect One because it has a much taller vertical FOV.
While your whole body should be visible for the best experience. It's possible to get away with tracking from the spine down.
If you're unsure about placing the Kinect, you can use Kinect Explorer for Xbox 360 Kinect or Kinect Studio with the Xbox One Kinect. This way you can see the Kinect camera feed and better place it.
Once you're done with this, we can launch K2EX.
Launching KinectToVR
K2EX needs SteamVR to be running and displaying to the headset before it can launch. Failing that, it will show a white screen then exit.
When using wireless streaming for your headset like Air Link, Virtual Desktop or ALVR, that should be started first.
If you wish to have the app start automatically once SteamVR is up. You can set that up here.
If everything went fine, you should see this at the top. Feel free to change the font size if it's too small.
If you have an error with the driver, you can fix it here: How to fix SERVER ERROR (Code: -10)
If you have have a Kinect error you can read here for the Xbox 360 Kinect. And here for the Xbox One Kinect.
You should now be able to click Spawn Trackers
Calibrating the trackers
You're now in VR and have the trackers moving, but they're not aligned to you.
Click on Begin Calibration to start the process. Instructions are written on the calibration button and below.
- You need to move in three different positions. The Kinect should be able to see your entire body in each step.
- You should stand a good 1-2 steps away from the last position on each step.
- There's a countdown for each position before it captures it. You should be standing still when the countdown hits zero.
- Calibration is complete!
If calibration fails
- Calibrate again, changing your head level between positions.
- Increase the number of calibration points from the default of 3. Calibration will take longer, but this increases the likelihood of it working.
- Delete the K2EX configuration and try calibrating again, there's a button to do this in the Options tab.
Other useful bits
You can play around with the filters and rotation settings for the feet and hip in the options tab.
It's also possible to disable the hip tracker to use something else like a third Rift controller, a Vive tracker or a phone with OwoTrack. (We highly recommend you give OwoTrack a go because it complements Kinect very well and makes your hip movements more accurate.)
Still having issues?
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