What are the minimum hardware & software requirements for the Intel RealSense D435?

[PG8]

HI everyone,

What are the minimum hardware & software requirements for the Intel RealSense D435?

According to the Intel website (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025567/emerging-technologies/intel-realsense-technology.html System Requirements for the Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D400 Series), all you need is a USB 3.0 port and Linux or Windows. According to the official RealSense 2.0 SDK GitHub page, it also runs on MacOS.

I've read in other places on the site that you need a 64-bit machine, and in other places it says you need a machine with an x86 architecture.

Put simply:

1. Which OSs can the D435 run on? Would it run on 3rd party OSs? (Lesser-known than Windows, MacOS, and Linux)?

2. Which processor type is required for the D435? Any, x86, or x86-64?

3. Do I need a 64 bit machine?

So far, all I'm sure of is the requirement for a USB 3.0.

Thank you

[MartyG · Accepted solution]

The 400 Series cameras can work with any Intel or ARM processor, and the main requirement is a USB 3.0 port.

The open-source, cross platform RealSense SDK 2.0 software that the 400 Series camera uses has both x86 and x64 library files (DLLs) and is officially supported on the following platforms:

Windows 10

Windows 8.1 (hardware frame synchronization does not work on Windows 8.1)

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Linux Kernel 4.4, 4.8 and 4.10)

Mac OS High Sierra. There are still several Known Issues with the Mac version though.

If you are building the SDK from source code, SDK 2.0 provides installation packages in dpkg format for Debian OS and its derivatives.

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/099458fd5dbe439bf678ea39c01f44b85923d8f5/doc/distribution_linux.md librealsense/distribution_linux.md at 099458fd5dbe439bf678ea39c01f44b85923d8f5 · IntelRealSense/librealsense · GitHub

[PG8]

Thanks Marty. Just what I was looking for.

Am I correct that it works on both 32 and 64 bit machines?

[MartyG]

It should work with both, since the SDK comes with both x86 (32 bit) and x64 (64 bit) library files for the camera.

If you were using the camera with the Unity game engine then you would have to use the x64 files for Unity 5 onwards, since Unity is a 64-bit program after Unity 5, but is 32-bit before that (e.g the Unity 4.x versions).

[RSun9]

How about the ARM architecture? Does the RealSense SDK 2.0 support any ARM processors?

[PG8]

Acccording to MartyG it does

[MartyG]

Yes, the 400 Series cameras can be used on any Intel or ARM processor. The main requirement is a USB 3.0 port.