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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. Re:TYZX website, links to details and publications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You fucking karma whore!

  2. Re:If society is an organism, negroids are cancer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think of them more as the normal bacterial flora in our lower digestive tract. They can be exploited for menial labour, in fact they are essential for a normal digestion and nourishment absorbtion process, but they must be confined in space and quantity or else they can become harmful, and they also constitute typically 40% of all shit.

  3. 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 ...]