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Oliver Kreylos from UC Davis has built on the hacked Kinect drivers that was released last week. His work is truly amazing and it demonstrates just the start of the possibilities of the Kinect. I can see companies spinning out some new products that build a device that relies on the Kinect as the main data acquisition portion. Just imagine placing someone on a chair and give them a spin in front of the Kinect, with a bit of software magic and a laptop you now could have a 3D full color representation of that person with a cheap Kinect doing all of the heavy lifting.
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November 17th, 2010
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Would it be possible to combine feed from two or more Kinects to fill-in the missing sides, I wonder ???
November 17th, 2010
Nice work indeed!
@bill
Was thinking the same thing myself. I suspect it would be possible, but calibration may be tricky and I suspect you’d get quite a bit of noise in the overlap, like the flash you get on cheaply cast plastic toys.
Let’s hope that we see something like this in the very near future, however.
November 17th, 2010
mind = blown…. This is some cool stuff, from a toy. See what can be developed when some one really tries? It’s like speak n’ spell all over again lol.
November 17th, 2010
In the below”" from the article, did you mean Chair instead of Chain ?
“Just imagine placing someone on a chain and give them a spin in front of the Kinect”
November 17th, 2010
Hi Josh,
Thanks for catching that.
November 17th, 2010
Hi Bill,
I was thinking the same thing and I guess Oliver had the same question asked to him. He hasn’t tried it but suspects that the output from the two units would interfere with each other. I can imagine with a hardware hack or possible even software or firmware it would be possible to have them take turns turning on their depth scanning. Either way I think we will see some exiting things in the months to come!
November 21st, 2010
I was very cynical about what you could do with a hacked kinect, because people were all suggesting to use it for games and that doesn’t fit PC games or desktop use, but the recent projects really start to change my mind of what you can get out if the thing, so yeah I feel some awe now
Not sure more than one is possible though and that’s a bit frustrating, but hey this is so much more than what you had before to play with in the area of depth-mapping so it’s good anyway,
And you could buffer the look from the other side as a 3D model and use the live view as a grid to rotate that against and fill in the black, that should be easy for the walls amd stationary objects at least.
November 22nd, 2010
The kinect depth camera works by emitting a bunch of IR beams, and reading them back, measuring the spread to calculate depth, therefore, more than one kinect would mess it up as they would read each other’s IR beams. You could probably do something like alternate which IR is on/read, but that would require actually hacking the firmware on the kinect, or at least figure out a way to turn off the IR camera very quickly.
November 22nd, 2010
Here’s what he thinks. Few other good ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB90t5Bssf8
November 23rd, 2010
Seems multiple kinects isn’t an issue after all, since the videos of projects are now starting to appear, nice for MS too I guess.
November 30th, 2010
Wow It really reminded me of the way they do home videos in the “Minority Report” movie. Seems like making kinnect portable will allow us to shoot movies like that
Now we just need to figure out how to display them like in the minority report 