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Yes you can generate odometry estimates from a Kinect, although I wouldn't call it a "simple" process.

There will always be issues with Visual Odometry when there aren't great features, and there are various feature descriptors to choose from that perform differently.

Check rgbdslam for an example of applied visual odom.

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