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This is exactly my question. Love node, love javascript, want to play with the kinect, but I want the raw depth map rather than a representation of a hand or whatever other magic is going on.

@chparsons Did you ever find an answer?

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Just looked into this (a little) and I'm guessing this is not possible. From a quick scan of the stack, it seems like the depth map never reaches javascript. The kinect device generates a depth map. That's passed to OpenNI / Nite, where it's interpreted into bode tracking events, hand actions, and so on. Those events are in turn passed to javascript, browser plugin, and so on. Bottom line, depth map -> js, doesn't happen. I've only been looking for an hour or so, so I could well be wrong, but that's how it seems to me.

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Oh, and it looks like there is an alternative in npm install kinect. https://github.com/pgte/node-kinect

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Yes, for node.js the npm lib you linked is probably much closer to what you need.

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