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4235	RealSense camera interface pyrealsense2 not available for Python 3.8	Tom Goddard	Tom Goddard	"The pyrealsense2 PyPi module used by our RealSense camera tool for capturing augmented reality videos is only available for Python 3.7, so will not work in current ChimeraX which uses Python 3.8.

Requests made on the RealSense library github site for Python 3.8 are more than a year old, and the response from Intel is repeatedly ""we support RealSense on Python"" and ""no further info on when Python 3.8 may be supported"".

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/6126

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/6296

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/8229

The RealSense C/C++ library and Python wrapper are open source and could possibly be compiled.  Uses cmake and pybind11 for the Python wrapper.  Might be able to just build the Python wrapper using the C++ library from the PyPi 3.7 version which is pretty recent (December 2020).
"	defect	closed	moderate		VR		fixed						all	ChimeraX