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Except the end of that video shows it working in a forest... https://youtu.be/Us0BqJvsF9k?t=6m14s https://youtu.be/Us0BqJvsF9k?t=6m14s

• robotresearcher 12y ago
  OK, that's cool. I stand corrected. Clearly it can work outdoors in some circumstances. IR texture projectors get washed out by ambient IR from the sun. Thus the choice of a shady forest for the very nice demo. People have also used Kinect outdoors in the evening, etc. But in the general case you can't rely on this approach because sun.
  • infogulch 12y ago
    > because sun. That's a fair point. So RealSense will probably work at night, in a shady forest (like the demo) or maybe the shady side of a mountain, but as soon as the sun is involved IR becomes unusable. I don't suppose you could switch the other side of the visible spectrum and do UV cameras, could you? Having your data reduced to one dimension per pixel really makes the AI easier.
    • robotresearcher 12y ago
      There's a lot of UV in sunlight too. Hence sunscreen. Many birds can see it. Some birds have patterns on them that are only visible in UV. Fun facts.