Orbbec Femto Bolt is a reliable alternative product to Microsoft Azure Kinect DK. We provide two SDKs for this product: Orbbec SDK and Orbbec SDK K4A Wrapper.
Since Orbbec cannot provide upgrades and maintenance of the original AKDK development tools, from a long-term perspective, we recommend you try and use Orbbec SDK which Orbbec has been maintaining and updating as soon as possible. Using Orbbec SDK with Femto Bolt will provide you with richer and more powerful features.
To help users who have developed applications using K4A get started with Orbbec Femto Bolt more quickly and achieve seamless replacement of Microsoft AKDK, we encapsulated Orbbec SDK K4A Wrapper on top of Orbbec SDK with maximum compatibility with K4A API. Using this Wrapper, the user’s application does not need to be modified.
For more details about Orbbec SDK, please click (https://github.com/orbbec/OrbbecSDK). If you encounter any issues using this product or need more information, please contact our technical support team at any time.
This document mainly summarizes Orbbec SDK K4A Wrapper and its features and tools.
Features
Orbbec SDK K4A Wrapper provides cross-platform low-level access to Femto Bolt device configuration and hardware sensor streams, including:
- Depth camera access and mode control (passive IR mode, wide and narrow field-of-view depth modes)
- RGB camera access and control (e.g. exposure and white balance)
- Motion sensors (gyroscope and accelerometer) access.
- Synchronized depth and RGB camera streams with configurable inter-camera delay.
- External device synchronization control with configurable inter-device delay offset.
- Access to camera frame metadata for handling image resolution, timestamps, etc.
- Access to device calibration data.
Tools
- K4aviewer tool for getting data streams, configuring depth modes, setting color parameters, live preview of 2D and 3D images.
- k4arecorder tool for recording using Matroska container format. Recorded files can be played back with K4aviewer.
Sensor SDK
- Open source code for Orbbec SDK K4A Wrapper is available on GitHub.
- See Sensor SDK API Documentation for detailed usage information.
Next Steps
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