Intel® RealSense™ Cross Platform API
Intel Realsense Cross-platform API
Software Support Model - Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0

Overview

With the release of the D400 series of Intel® RealSense™ devices, Intel RealSense Group is introducing a number of changes to the librealsense support.

Software support for Intel® RealSense™ technology will be split into two coexisting release lineups: librealsense 1.x and **librealsense 2+**.

API Changes

librealsense2 brings the following improvements and new capabilities (which are incompatible with older RealSense devices):

Streaming API

Multi-Streaming Model

librealsense2 eliminates limitations imposed by previous versions with regard to multi-streaming:

New Functionality

Transition to CMake

librealsense2 does not provide hand-written Visual Studio, QT-Creator and XCode project files as you can build librealsense with the IDE of your choice using portable CMake scripts.

Intel® RealSense™ RS400 and the Linux Kernel