| .jayderyu said: It's called Parallax. I keep on telling people to research this very valuable piece of information. Mostly because it will give the most insight on understanding Kinect and Move, but nope. Ignorance is bliss. |
doesn't matter on distance. A great peice of technology should do some simple geometry to figure out distance from camera, and angle and that should be enough to figure out the rest of the figures in teh triangle that is you and the kinect camera.
though since kinect is say 4 feet above ground it would be some sort of a parallelogram instead, but still then it should be able to determine how far above the ground it is, based on same features. figure out how far away some object is and then computer its own height.
both are simple calculations i could do on paper and pencil in a matter of seconds, i figure a machine that is supposed to be able to do all that it says it can shoudl be able to do. or does kinect not able to determine 3d distance from itself? if it can't then forget everything i said. Cause if it can determine that said person is 3 feet away or 3 and half feet away, ect, then its simple geometry that i could do in like 9th grade.
