Will there be a multiple camera support?

[Florian_M_]

Hello guys,

nice to meet you! I am a newbie at Intel Real Sense and I have a question... just a little one :)

I am working with the Microsoft Kinect sensor (V1 and V2) for a quiet long time and now a want to start to work with the Intel Real Sense.
I have to know if there would be the feature to use multiple cameras on one PC. I found some Topics that it is not possible at the moment but I hope this feature will be added in the future.
Come on, any insinder here? :)

Have a nice day!

Florian

[Xusheng_L_Intel]

Welcome to Intel RealSense SDK. You will find more interesting and flexible usage with RealSense SDK. Currently we did not have plan to support multiple cameras at the same time. 

[Florian_M_]

Hello David,

thank you for answers!
In my scenario I need more than one camera :( So can you imaging a way, where I can get only the depthframe from more than one camera, or is it just not possibe? If it is so, what are the reasons?

USB 3.0? Would it be a solution if I take more USB 3.0 controllers?

Or is it just a not planed feature in the SDK?

Has anyone the same problem, or better... the solution for my problem?

Thank you very much!

[MartyG]

In theory, you could have more than one computer, with one camera on each computer.  You could then construct an online multiplayer app that runs in a web browser where the camera-powered assets from each individual computer 'log in' to a single room where they are all shown together.  That's the theory, anyway.  Making such an application might be a bit more difficult!

[Florian_M_]

Hello Marty,

I already had the same idea. I have already built a program for the Kinect V2 which combines the data of two (or even more) PCs.
The problem now is, that I don't want (and I also can't) use more than one PC.

I hope there will be a solution for it in the future.

Best Regards,
Florian
 

[MartyG]

I wonder if it would be possible to run more than one camera on the same PC by using a Virtual Machine setup, where you can have more than one OS running at the same time.  A Microsoft guide about this says that Windows 8.1 has a program built into it called Hyper-V that enables virtualization.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/hyper-v-run-virtual-machines