Kinect Question: what happened to scanning items in?

[ArnoldRimmer]

thx1139 said:

Sweep said:

thx1139 said:

Kuda Tsunoda said on one of the interviews that Kinectimals will have stuffed animals that you can scan into the game.  So the capability must be there.

Absolutely not : With the stuff animal, you get a bar code and this bar code is scanned by the Kinect to give you the animal in the game. it's not a realtime scan of the stuff

And you know this how?  Not to mention having the resolution to scan a bar code means the capability to scan an object will work just fine.

Kinect is not able to scan the common 1D-bar codes like the ones on products. That would probably require an autofocus camera, higher resolution (or printing the barcode 10 times its usual size )

Instead, it's a special proprietary Microsoft 3D-barcode (the third dimension in this case being colour, not depth).