Visualizing Kinect Output without a TurtleBot
Hi,
The "Visualizing TurtleBot Kinect Data" tutorial http://www.ros.org/wiki/turtlebot/Tutorials/Looking%20at%20Camera%20Data seems very tided to the TurtleBot - is there a way to visualize the Kinect Camera or PointCloud in rviz without the TurtleBot?
Best Regards,
You need some type of URDF so that RViz knows where the Kinect is so it can draw the point clouds. Then you would do what @Ryan says.
"roslaunch openni_launch kinect_frames.launch" takes care of setting up some static transforms to let rviz draw the clouds.