I have to work with the Kinect v2 in Linux for a project and am searching for compatible libraries. It is unclear as to whether the Open Kinect project has cracked the Kinect v2 yet.
Yes, this library is for the kinect v2. This library (libfreenect2) does not work with the older kinect (360) for which you would use libfreenect
Read the project page here: https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2