librealsense
- Software
- Perception
- Driver or SDK
A cross-platform SDK for Intel RealSense depth cameras, providing depth and colour streaming plus intrinsic and extrinsic calibration data.
Made by RealSenseAI.
Source on GitHub: github.com/realsenseai/librealsense (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit c84fe64 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit c84fe64 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Streams depth and colour frames from RealSense depth cameras through a high-level pipeline API.
- Supplies intrinsic and extrinsic calibration information for the cameras.
- Includes the RealSense Viewer for viewing streams, tuning settings, and recording and playback.
- Includes a Depth Quality Tool for measuring accuracy and fill rate.
- Offers wrappers for Python, ROS 2, C#, Unity and a REST API.
- Can be installed as a precompiled SDK or built from source with CMake, with optional AMD GPU acceleration via HIP/ROCm.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit c84fe64.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- Runs on Ubuntu, Windows, macOS High Sierra, Jetson, and Raspberry Pi, with a RealSense depth camera connected; GPU acceleration needs an AMD GPU with ROCm/HIP.
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 11 Oct 2026 on master
- Latest release
- RealSense SDK 2.0 beta (v2.59.1) (11 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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