Ah, the Kinect... platform for the first Matterport revision. (Matt B. is so next-level ridiculously creative, Adam Savage would tip his fedora.) Matterport is

Ah, the Kinect... platform for the first Matterport revision. (Matt B. is so next-level ridiculously creative, Adam Savage would tip his fedora.) Matterport is a really neat mesh/texture capture and stitching platform that I only saw rough demos run based on multiple fixed CCTVs to do forensic 3D scene reconstruction from UC Davis researchers some years before. Also, a first-hand story for this category: Once upon a time, next door to my grandparents house in SJ/Los Gatos region, there lived a renter... not any renter, but a corporate/PhD/engineer whom quit his job to start a startup. After some casual conversation, he mentioned he was working on then something stealth-mode involving machine vision and 3D screen interfacing (think Kinect meets Wii controllers). Many Maybachs, Merc S-series and Aston Martins came by to due-diligence and meet said entrepreneur's startup, team and tech at this rental 3-BD with a dedicated meeting room near Hwy 85. The odd thing was, I never heard what happened to him and has baby. That is until I ran into someone whom did some work for him several years later. (The Valley is a very small place; heck, yours truly toured Woz'es and coworker's homes under construction when I was like 7, but I was more interested in the steep road (Harwood IIRC) out front for high-speed skateboarding/bicycling.) Anyhow, it turns out, the night before the demo, the CEO made a source code change or something that broke the build. And, there weren't backups because they weren't using a (D)VCS. (Ouch.) I think it was acquired for an "undisclosed sum" for IP and wound down IIRC. What sucks is having to go back to work, kind of a tech "bar closing walk-of-shame," but there's always next time.