Is it possible to begin development without hardware (i.e. a camera)?

[Chris_D_]

I'd like to start playing with the SDK, but I don't have a RealSense camera yet.  Will I be able to do any development without the hardware?  Is it possible to mock the input data (gestures, etc.) so I can start coding against input?  Will the runtime even run if it doesn't detect a camera?

Thanks

[Andradige_S_Intel]

Hello Cris,

Congratulations, now you have the power of cutting edge perceptual computing...

Unfortunately most of the cool features won't work without the RealSense camera...however you can still tryout features that don't rely on the depth and IR feeds, like face related features such as emotion recognition, face tracking and other features like object tracking etc.. with a usual RGB web cam such as one comes with laptops. You certainly don't need the cam for speech recognition and synthesis :)

Even for features that do require the RealSense cam, you can still read the manual and play with the sample code to get used to API and start writing your apps, so you can right away test them when you get the cam (which won't be that long). Have fun...