WereKitten on 03 June 2009
| JaggedSac said: Natal actually uses a depth sensor to get 3D information. It consists of an infrared projector combined with a monochrome CMOS sensor. So lighting conditions make no difference what so ever. It is probably based off of the time-of-flight model where the sensor sends pulses of light(in this case, infrared) and calculates the distance based on the time till a reflection is generated. |
I thought time-of-flight was used to map very distant objects? Actually if you look at the hardware bar pics, it seems to have two sensors side by side. So it could just be "binocular vision", reconstructed into a depth map by some dedicated hardware. Or is one of them the RGB camera?
