Kinect for windows v2 SDK and v1 sensors

Before upgrading to win 8 to utilize the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0  I want to know if it is backwardly compatible with the v1 of the sensors.
Thanks

There are technical ways of doing it but requires that you create your own separate .dll's that will wrap the v1 and v2 libraries in their own wrapper so the namespace collisions don't occur. Then you use your .dll within your application. I have a snippet
of code of how to do this in my GitHub account:https://github.com/carmines/workshop/tree/master/WPF/KinectV2andV1
Then there are the image resolution and camera intrinsic values you need to concern yourself with if you intend to try and mix the values together.
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