What is the best way to set up my Kinect 2.0 on my laptop?

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Couple Notes (as i’ve done some kinect work in UE4)

  1. Need Native Full Speed USB 3.0 (Must use Intel or Renasas USB controller. ASmedia has issues and sometimes can’t give full bandwidth and not supported by microsoft team)
  2. Currently there are 2 plugins that people use to work with UE4. Kinect 4 Windows v2.0 Plugin - C++ - Unreal Engine Forums and http://www.opaque.media/kinect-4-unreal/#about-k4u

Not sure why you need eSATA , or where you saw that?

However, You CANNOT use a converter/adapter to go USB 3.0 to USB 2.0 (or vise versa). The reason Kinect 2 uses USB 3 is because it needs all the data bandwidth to transfor information from the kinect 2, and USB2 does not have enough throughput.