Hi, I have zero experience with Ubuntu, I’m a teacher, I don’t know what I’m doing and I’m trying to get this to work to use with kids at school. Hopefully someone out there can help us out, we’d very much appreciate it.

I followed the instructions in this thread and everything seemed to install OK, I got the messages ‘Package Vrui, version 12.2, successfully installed’, ‘Package Kinect, version 4.2, successfully installed’ and ‘Package SARndbox, version 3.2, successfully installed’ in the terminal and I have icons on the desktop.

I have the original Kinect for the Xbox360 (model 1414) and the light on it blinks green when I plug it in to the PC (it’s running Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS). When I try to run RawKinectViewer it tells me I have fewer than one 3D cameras connected to the host. I noticed it says, ‘Support for Microsoft Kinect v2 (Kinect-for-Xbox-One) enabled’ in what was returned in the terminal, so I imagine that might be why my Kinect isn’t recognised? If anybody has any ideas about what I need to do to get the Kinect recognised (and any other tips) I’d very much like to hear about it.
Thanks