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There is no way this is a replacement for the RealSense depth cameras. These are USB, bus powered, factory calibrated, cameras doing the block matching in an AS

There is no way this is a replacement for the RealSense depth cameras. These are USB, bus powered, factory calibrated, cameras doing the block matching in an ASIC. Often with an IR projector to help the matching. This like saying, oh well, I can’t find a GPU, so I’ll just compile Mesa for the CPU and my product will be fine.

fxtentacle 5y ago
Put an NVIDIA Jetson Nano in between and you also have hardware matching. IR projector is $19: https://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ams/AQAA-20?qs=DRkmTr78QAQfPke984WqEw== https://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ams/AQAA-20?qs=DRkmTr7...
- WJW 5y ago
  This seems a little bit like claiming that while you can't deliver an aircraft carrier right now, you do have several canoes available and since they both float it's basically the same thing.
  - fxtentacle 5y ago
    Yes and no. Of course, a homemade module like this will be way less polished than a RealSense camera. But on the other hand, it'll be more flexible and possibly tailored to your problem. So a homemade module might actually have better performance.
- gary_0 5y ago
  That one only has 4700 dots, which severely limits the potential applications. The one in the iPhone face scanner has 30,000 dots. (Last time I looked, it was very hard to source IR projectors that you could use to make a reasonably accurate depth camera.)
  - fxtentacle 5y ago
    It has about 5500 dots so it should be similar to the projector inside a RealSense D435.