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RVIZ cannot view 16 bit images natively. You'll have to convert them to an 8 bit format.

There are various ways to do this. A simple method is to normalise the depth image to the range 0-255 and changed to an 8 bit image. Or a more meaningful conversion would be adding a color bar and scale.

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