A look at what Kinect's IR beam does using Nightvision Goggles!

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DaHuuuuuudge said:

yo_john117 said:

Wow thats pretty cool!  What do all those dots do?

I'm pretty sure that they callabrate the distance between adjacent dots, then detect movement on a 3d plane based on the distance change from the dots. But that is just my idea, I have no clue if thats true.

Sensible. When I read somewhere else that it projected a pattern, I expected a sort of grid, but their R&D must have obviously found that a less regular dot pattern could give more advantages for their purposes, and most probably also help avoiding possible aliasing when projected on clothes coloured with straight-lined geometrical patterns, like chequered, striped, tartan, etc ...