Hacking the Kinect 360: Installing OpenNI on OSX Lion - Mountain Lion - Mavericks

Tutorial to install OpenNI on OSX Lion / Mountain Lion / Mavericks  (and then, Osceleton).

Only for Kinect for Xbox 360!!!  Doesn't work with Kinect for Windows (and Kinect for Xbox One, I guess...)

Preparation
For OSX Lion and Mountain Lion, you must install (the latest version, preferably) of:
XCode
Command line tools for Xcode:
To install the Command Line Tools open XCode, go XCode> Open Developer Tool> More Developer Tools. Log in as an Apple developer, and download the Command Line Tool for your OS.

XQuartz
MacPorts

CMake

Installation
With the above programs installed, follow the installation order below.

Libtool
Open Terminal (Applications> Utilities> Terminal) and run the following command:

sudo port install libtool

Hit Enter, and then, enter the admnistrador password and hit Enter.

Libusb
Open terminal and run (exactly) the following command:

sudo port install libusb +universal

Hit Enter, and then, enter the admnistrador password and hit Enter.

OpenNI
First of all, I recommend creating a folder named "kinect" in "documents" (not required, do it only for organizational reasons).

Download this version of the OpenNI SDK and extract it in the "kinect" folder

Open Terminal;
Change directory to the OpenNI SDK folder;
Run the command to install:

sudo ./install.sh

Install SensorKinect
Download the latest version of SensorKinect and extract it in your "kinect" folder.
Go to the "bin" folder. Extract the file "SensorKinect093-Bin-MacOSX-v5.1.2.1.tar.bz2" in the same "bin" folder.
In Terminal, go to the extracted folder and run the command:

sudo . /install.sh

Install PrimeSense NITE
Download this version of NITE.

Extract the contents of the folder "kinect."
Open Terminal, go to the directory "NITE-Bin-MacOSX-Dev-v1.5.2.21"
Run the command:

sudo . /install.sh

TEST

To test the demos, copy all *. xml files that are in "NITE-Bin-Dev-MacOSX-v1.5.2.21/Data" to "SensorKinect-unstable/Data"

Plug the Kinect on the Mac to check if the demos work.

Run one of the examples of NITE.
Open Terminal,
Go to the directory "NITE-Bin-Dev-MacOSX-v1.5.2.21/Samples/Bin/x64-Release"
open the example "PointViewer" with the command:

. /Sample-PointViewer

Shake hands, OpenNI  will track your hand.

Installing Osceleton
Download the OSCeleton
Extract the content in the "kinect" folder

Open terminal
Go to folder "yourKinectFolder/OSCeleton-master"
Run the command:

make

If everything worked, you can now test OSCeleton:
In the folder "OSCeleton-master" double-click the executable "OSCeleton" or open it in Terminal.
Keep a distance of approximately two steps away from Kinect and stay in position of calibration, with both arms raised, as shown below:

Keep an eye on the Terminal to see if you are recognized.
If a recognition happens, the installation was successful.

Running OSCeleton and communicating with Processing

You will need to install Processing (first) and so the libraries oscP5 and pbox2d.

Download the libraries, extract and copy the folders "oscP5" and "pbox2d" to the Libraries folder inside the Processing folder (normally located in "Documents")

Download the examples for OSCeleton
Extract the folder and go to "Sensebloom-OSCeleton-examples-d56823f 2/processing/MotionCapture3D" and open the sketch "MotionCapture3D" in Processing.
Click "Run" and if you're recognized, you will see an avatar of spheres.

That's it!!

If you have any question, or if it worked (or don't) please, leave a comment!