PointCloud v2

Brekel Pointcloud v2 is a Windows application that records 3D pointcloud using a Kinect sensor, and export them to popular mesh-cache and particle-cache formats for use most 3D packages.

• Support for Kinect for Windows v2 and Kinect for XBox One sensors
• Support for Orbbec Astra and Astra Pro sensors
• Support for Intel RealSense 300 & 400 series sensors
• can happily co-exist with the other Brekel applications

• record pointclouds and/or meshes at full 30 fps to a custom file format
• record color or infrared video, ready to be UV-mapped as a texture
• record audio in sync from Kinect's microphone or any other audio source
• convert as a post process to the desired output format(s)

• supported texture formats: JPG, PNG, TGA, TIFF
• supported particle cache formats: Realflow BIN, BGEO (Houdini pre-v12), PDB, PDC, Krakatoa PRT, PTC
• supported mesh cache formats: Realflow BIN, Alembic, OBJ, PLY
• ability to sync recording between multiple Brekel app on the same machine or different machines on the same network
• automatically align with floor (or not)
• compress data during recording to control file size vs quality
• detect human bodies and clip data, for greenscreen-like effects
• crop & transform pointclouds during record and/or export
• batch processor for easily working with multiple files

• Comes with Unity integration (script/shaders) for file playback on Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, XR headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift/Go, WindowsMR), HoloLens, Magic Leap).

System requirements:

• Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 (USB stack of Windows 7 or below can’t handle bandwidth requirements of v2 sensor and is NOT supported)
• USB 3.0 port, Intel and Renesas chipsets only! (others brands may or may not work)
• DirectX 11 capable GPU (Intel HD4000, AMD Radeon HD6470M / HD6570, NVIDIA Geforce 610M or above)
• 4 GB or more RAM
• Dual Core 3.1Ghz i7/i5 CPU (slower should work but may drop frames)
• 1280×1024 screen (recommended: 1920×1080 or higher)