• This page takes you through the installation process of ReconstructMe and makes some recommendations towards hardware.

    Hardware Requirements

    ReconstructMe makes heavy use of the computational power of modern graphic cards. In order to experience real-time reconstruction, we recommend a decent graphics card, both AMD and NVIDIA will work. We don’t make any specific recommendations, but the graphic cards we are currently developing on are

    • AMD Radeon HD 6850
    • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

    Additionally we have created a device compatibility matrix that you might find helpful.

    You will also need a RGB-D sensor to perform real-time reconstruction. The following sensors are supported

    Installation

    Before you can start reconstructing, you need to make sure have installed the following prerequisites

    1. Display and CPU Drivers
      ReconstructMe uses OpenCL. We recommend that you update your display and/or CPU drivers to the latest version: NVIDIA, AMD, INTEL.
    2. C++ Redistributables
      Our code is compiled against Microsoft Visual Studio 10. You need to install its runtime to successfully run ReconstructMe.
    3. Sensor Driver
      Depending on the sensor type you own you need to proceed in different ways

      • Microsoft Kinect for Windows
        1. Unplug your sensor.
        2. Download and install the Microsoft Kinect Runtime 1.5
        3. Reboot your system.
        4. Plugin the sensor and wait for the OS to detect it.
      • Microsoft Kinect for XBox
        1. Download the OpenNI 32bit driver package. In case you have OpenNI already installed or want to download the packages from the official homepage, make sure you choose the 32bit versions.
        2. Unplug your sensor.
        3. Uninstall any previous version of OpenNI and/or KinectSDK.
        4. Install OpenNI using the installer found in the driver package.
        5. Install SensorKinect found in the OpenNI driver package.
        6. Reboot your system.
        7. Plugin the sensor and wait for the OS to detect it.
      • Asus Xtion Pro Live and Asus Xtion Pro
        1. Download the OpenNI 32bit driver package. In case you have OpenNI already installed or want to download the packages from the official homepage, make sure you choose the 32bit versions.
        2. Unplug your sensor.
        3. Uninstall any previous version of OpenNI and/or KinectSDK.
        4. Install OpenNI using the installer found in the driver package.
        5. Install SensorPrimesense found in the OpenNI driver package.
        6. Reboot your system.
        7. Plugin the sensor and wait for the OS to detect it.
    4. ReconstructMe
      Get the latest version from the project page. Install it to new folder of your choice.