Multiple Kinect 360 sensors in v2 SDK?

Hi,
therer are several threads pointing out that there is no way of using multiple v2 sensors on the same machine due to PCI bandwidth limitations.
However, I would like to use multiple v1 sensors instead. I'm about to move form OpenNI to Kinect SDK since former is discontinued and I'm hardly on Linux anyways. I have several multi-Kinect applications and I would like to port the
image acquisition code, but for that I would prefer using the most recent SDK.
Do I have to downgrade to K4W v1.8 for what I'm trying to do?
Thanks,
Roland

The v1 will only work with SDK 1.8, whereas the v2 will only work with SDK 2.0. Using multiple v1 on one PC is fairly straightforward but you need to be using the 1.8 SDK.

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