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Can Your Webcam Do This?
- snoopybbt 12y agoI am pretty much scared from this. I mean, not only NSA and such organization were theoretically able to get a photo of you without your consent, you they can get an actuall 3D reconstruction of your whole face. Just... Scary.
- bsg75 12y agoLooks similar to what the current MS Kinect does?
- JosephRedfern 12y agoYes, in that it uses structured light (like the Kinect), rather than time-of-flight. I think that the interesting part of this is that they seem to be planning to provide the hardware to OEMs for incorporation into laptops etc. It seems a shame that those chose to demo IR illumination ("seeing in the dark") over the real depth sensing ability of the device. The idea of using structured light is really interesting - see http://users.dickinson.edu/~jmac/selected-talks/kinect.pdf http://users.dickinson.edu/~jmac/selected-talks/kinect.pdf. The Asus XTION is a good alternative to the Kinect if you're looking to get into this sort of technology, as it requires no external power source (unlike the Kinect). There is also the Creative Senz3D, which uses time-of-flight rather than structure light, but I haven't had a chance to play with one (http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Gesture-Recognition-Personal-Computers/dp/B00EVWX7CG http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Gesture-Recognition-Personal-...).