[Fluxus] kinetic

[Scott]

Here's a link to the company that makes the underlying technology... or one
very similar to it: http://www.primesense.com/?p=487
 <http://www.primesense.com/?p=487>*
*    What's interesting about the zcam is that it actually uses
TIME-OF-FLIGHT to compute depth, so IR reflectivity shouldn't really
matter!

They have a way to phase things such that they can switch off the CCD in
picoseconds (I think tens or maybe even a hundred ish of them).


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:22 AM, David Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:40 -0800, Scott wrote:
> > http://www.primesense.com/?p=515
> >
> >
> > Is the company that provides the underlying technology, and a
> > middleware layer. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they've made it
> > easy for just normal folk to get them.
>
> I had access to the primesense camera when I was working for another
> games/hardware company who were considering going in this direction.
>
> The depth data from the camera is certainly an order of magnitude better
> than relying on rgb for algorithmically understanding the scene, but it
> of course brings it's own problems with it. Anything reflective or with
> high ir (like patches of sunlight) can cause big spikes in the depthmap
> for example.
>
> I haven't had access to the kinetic system, but I'd like to see how good
> the skeleton matching is - the reviews I've read have been luke warm on
> this feature, as it seems difficult to make some of the gestures work.
> It will be interesting if this gets fixed with a bit more experience
> from the games developers or whether it's a lower level problem.
>
> In any case, I would say that interesting stuff can definately be done
> with the raw data from the camera. I would also imagine it won't be long
> till we start to see free software libraries appearing to do different
> things with the data, and these are likely to end up more
> interesting/useful for more general purpose stuff than the proprietary
> APIs.
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
>
>
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