drkohler on 08 November 2010
| JaggedSac said: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-kinect-pc-blog-entry Looks like it really wasn't downgraded to 320 x 240. Should I start taking credit for being right about this, or should I wait for a more certain confirmation :) |
You see variable specs because 99.99% of the people who write about it do not have the slightest idea of how the depth camera operates.
Kinect has two 640*480 CCD chips (one RGB and one for depth resolution) and an infrared random speckle projector. Due to the physics and math behind the depth finding principle, the minimum speckle size is 2 by 2 pixels. The depth camera therefore gives a 2D resolution of 320*240 to the XBox.
