I’m waiting to get my hands onto a Kinect and while this happens Fakenect from Brandyn White has appeared that can help us to put an eye over the scene.

The instructions to be able to run (for example) the glview demo (I do it on Ubuntu) are:

1) Install the libraries that we'll use for OpenKinect (libfreenect): libusb-1.0 >= 1.0.3, Cmake >= 2.6, OpenGL:
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-dev freeglut3-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev cmake

2) Clone the repository of the project with git to our pc: (if you don't have git: sudo apt-get install git-core)
git clone https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect.git OpenKinect
(It will create a directory called OpenKinect where you are).

3) Create a directory where to compile and build:
cd OpenKinect
mkdir build

4) Use cmake and compile:
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

5) Now we need a Kinect capture (someone can make one for you if he has a Kinect and the tool "record" from the utils directory) we can use the capture of the Fakenect creator: download from here. Extract it somewhere, I did in: /home/sam/git/legos0

6) Now we can execute glview with the next line (with your FAKENECT_PATH) (you need to use all the line, dunno why, someone knows why?):
LD_PRELOAD="/usr/local/lib/fakenect/libfreenect.so" FAKENECT_PATH="/home/sam/git/legos0" ./bin/glview


Here you have a screenshot of it working:

Tags: fakenect, glview, kinect, probar, try