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Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
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Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK

A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-05-04 10:22:21 UTC to 2024-09-30 05:54:20 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Its close in spirit to DRM: they enforce that if you are using their projects, it is under their legal terms. Many of their VS Code extensions[0] have license terms which /prohibit/ them from being used in editors that are not Microsoft's VS Code editor, and Microsoft can issue cease-and-desist for violations of this, as well as 'open source forks of VS Code' using their marketplace services. Microsoft also has a pattern they follow where they publish repositories on GitHub to proclaim they are open source, while actually distributing proprietary binary blobs in them that are fundamental core parts of functionality to the codebase[2][3][4] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6388#iss... [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/5784 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/766 [3] https://dev
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After_Edit Correction: [1] Velodyne made "announcement" for 2022 release of Velabit, so its delayed by 2 years from their original pre-Covid target. [2] Also some mixed results getting the Kinect Dev Kit: https://github.com/microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK/issues/... Postscript: Kickstarter people's discussion on Movidius availability through 2028 and theory why RealSense was superseded : https://discuss.luxonis.com/d/293-intel-winding-down-realsen...
In Intel is giving up on its AI-powered RealSense cameras

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