Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Two Kinects join forces to create better 3D video, blow our minds (video)

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Remember when Oliver Kreylos impressed and shocked us by showing that
a single Microsoft Kinect could create some remarkably stout 3D video?
He's back at it again, this time blowing minds and demonstrating that
two Kinects can be paired and their output meshed -- one basically
filling in the gaps of the other. He found that the two do create some
interference, the dotted IR pattern of one causing some holes and
blotches in the other, but when the two are combined they basically
help each other out and the results are quite impressive. As you can
see in the video after the break, Oliver is able to rotate the camera
perspective and basically film himself from a new camera angle that
exists somewhere in between the position of the two Kinects, and do-so
in real-time. Sure, the quality leaves a lot to be desired, but still.
Wow.

[Thanks, Mohammad]

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