SecondHarvest wrote:
I should mention, I bought two kinect cameras and power converters in the hopes that they would both work on my laptop (which is at least 6 year old and intel)
I can only use one kinect on my laptop, because it seems the two blue usb I have are on the same controller, so decided to build a new pc.
The new build I have should be better than my laptop, but it's still not as good in regards to kinect.
You're using Kinect 2, correct? You can only connect one Kinect 2 sensor to any single computer. It's a Microsoft SDK limitation. In other words, you'll still need both computers for a dual Kinect 2 setup.
Ideally, the computers should be networked. Wifi is okay but ethernet is way faster for getting the data sent to the master computer. It's not absolutely necessary but networking does make the process go more easily.
The older XBox Kinect sensors didn't have this limitation and they had less demanding hardware requirements so you could plug multiple sensors into a single computer. The quality wasn't as good as using Kinect 2 sensors though, so it's a trade-off.
You probably know all this; just FYI for anybody else following this thread.