Up to date training material and turorial information - SDK version notes

[christopher_b_2]

I am new to realsense and am using the training material located at https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-realsense-sdk-support/training

Is this to be considered the canonical source? If not what resource should I be using? I am using the latest SDK (r3 v5.0.3.187777) and there appear to be many discrepancies and inacurracies. The training material on this page does not have any reference to what SDK versions, date of publication or whether they have been revised or are current/obsolete that I can see.

So far I've looked at the "Setup plus code walk-through" and "Hand Analysis Tutorial".

• Setup plus code walk-through
  • links to an obsolete version of sample code packages (see my post https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/538062#comment-1828624).
• Hand Analysis Tutorial
  • while explaining the code shows and describes snippets that appear incorrect eg.

    #include "handanalysys_render.h"
    
    {
        // initialise the UntilRender instances
        HandRender *render = new HandRender(L"Procedural Hand Tracking");
    
        // create the PXCSenseManager
        PXCSenseManager *psm=0;
        psm = PXCSenseManager::CreateInstance():
        if(!psm) {
            wprintf_s(L"Unable to create the PXCSenseManager\n");
            return 1;
        }
    }

    Noting that on inspection HandRender appears to be defined in "handtracking_render.h"

  • Almost every single link in the pdf is dead with the exception of a link to the obsolete code samples package

  • Although labelled "Hand Analysis Tutorial" directs to a document named "Hand Tracking Tutorial" - although elsewhere on the intel website there is indeed a document by the name "Hand Analysis Tutorial.

What should I be using as my learning material? I really just want to know the basics of the SDK how to work with it and write some code to connect up to the cam and grab some hand data (continuous loop of joint positions so long as a hand is in view).