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Cheap 3D Computer Vision?

Posted by michael on from the no-glasses-required dept.

InspectorPraline writes "According to this article at the New York Times [free reg req'd], a tech firm known as Tyzx is developing optics technology that will have three-dimensional capability -- using two cameras attached by a high-bandwidth connection to a custom processing card inside a PC. The article makes one believe that the system would have a top speed of as much as 132 stereo frames per second, which could be very useful in security systems. Of course, the real question is who's behind the cameras, but we can all drool over the other possibilities, right?"

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  1. This may be a little off topic... by ath0mic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but how many people who read /. don't know the ny times requires [free reg ...]