Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
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Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
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Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#2I hope he links up two or three of these to form fuller 3d models of a room.
Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#3I hope he links up two or three of these to form fuller 3d models of a room.
The Kinect works by projecting an infra-red grid on to the room so you can't use 2 of them in the same space (unless you modify the hardware somehow)
Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#4I hope he links up two or three of these to form fuller 3d models of a room.
You could also just use pretty standard scanmatching algorithms to build a model from a sequence of scans from one camera (i.e. waving it around at a reasonable rate).
Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#5I hope he links up two or three of these to form fuller 3d models of a room.
The Kinect works by projecting an infra-red grid on to the room so you can't use 2 of them in the same space (unless you modify the hardware somehow)
Here's a nice video, if anyone's curious about what the infrared pattern looks like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvvQJxgykcU
Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#6I hope he links up two or three of these to form fuller 3d models of a room.
each unit could broadcast the grid at different wavelengths, so they don't interfere.
Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#7Don't miss:
a) His other video of the system where he shows that measurements of 3d objects exactly match real counterparts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ieKe_ts0k
b) His homepage of other experiments: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/index.html
Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#8I hope he links up two or three of these to form fuller 3d models of a room.
The Kinect works by projecting an infra-red grid on to the room so you can't use 2 of them in the same space (unless you modify the hardware somehow)
Could you synchronize two Kinect devices on one clock and then toggle the display/capture of that grid every odd or even 10ms span? So, only one grid is displayed and processed during its 'slice' of time, with the grids strobing rather than continuously projected.
Software-only, or would that result in too jerky of a motion capture?
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#9I'm not in this space or planning on investing time into this but I just wanted to say Kudos to Microsoft for creating something that developers are excited about again... even if they didn't indent to do that. I'd start hacking on this if I wasn't invested in a different direction.
Re: Hacked Kinect is now a 3D video capture tool
#10Here it is on the creator's website instead of a lame blog post: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Kinect/