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Yes both are basically publishing same images(rgb+depth) as actually rgbdslam itself uses openni_camera to subscribe to images coming from kinect. Only difference is that rgbdslam is not supported in fuerte and thus uses the openni_camera(a package in openni kinect) supported in electric

Whereas the link you mentioned is for openni_launch(a unary stack) which is for fuerte

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