librealsense

Why we included this project

Depth data only helps when the SDK around it is solid, and librealsense is the official cross-platform library for Intel RealSense stereo depth cameras. It handles depth and color streaming plus intrinsic and extrinsic calibration, so your code can reason about the physical world rather than just consume pixels. The high-level pipeline API gets a basic stream running in a few lines, and the lower-level interfaces expose full control over camera settings when you need it. Bindings for Python, ROS, C#, and Unity mean the same camera can feed a research prototype or a shipped product. The bundled viewer and depth-quality tools are worth having when you want to validate a camera before writing much code.