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Combining Two Kinects To Make Better 3D Video

Posted by Soulskill on from the this-is-what-happens-when-yo dept.

suraj.sun sends this quote from Engadget about improving the Kinect 3D video recordings we discussed recently: "[Oliver Kreylos is] blowing minds and demonstrating that two Kinects can be paired and their output meshed — one basically filling in the gaps of the other. He found that the two do create some interference, the dotted IR pattern of one causing some holes and blotches in the other, but when the two are combined they basically help each other out and the results are quite impressive."

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  1. Re:Anybody in optics? by Xelios · · Score: 3, Informative

    He touched on these ideas in another of his videos from before this latest one.

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  2. Re:Polarizing filters! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately, this wouldn't work very well. Light tends to lose its polarization somewhat when it bounces off of things. In a theater that's OK because you can use a special screen that maintains the polarization. Band limiting each kinect would be more effective than polarization (and would also scale better - polarization only allows for 2 kinects; the bandpass idea would only be limited by how good your filters are).