# Use Kinect 1 or 2 sensors with Processing 2 or 3

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/use-kinect-1-or-2-sensors-with-processing-2-or-3/86>\
**Category:** Libraries\
**Created:** [May 18, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/use-kinect-1-or-2-sensors-with-processing-2-or-3/86 "2018-05-18T07:47:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![hamoid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/hamoid/32/58_2.png) [@hamoid](https://discourse.processing.org/u/hamoid)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/use-kinect-1-or-2-sensors-with-processing-2-or-3/86/2 "2018-05-19T09:32:12Z")

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Hi! Thanks for sharing! For those who don’t know: what can you do with this library? Does it require specific hardware? The GitHub page seems to assume the user knows what is SimpleOpenNI. I didn’t find an explanation of its purpose 🙂

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