noslodecoy said:
Well, I did a little research and outside of taping aluminum foil to my chest, I couldn't find a material that fooled the depth sensing camera. I pulled out every pair of jeans I could find. I can't say I have any really shiny ones, but my girlfriend's had a little sheen to them.
For clearity, a black to white bitmap scale is returned to specify depth. Black being infinite depth, white being no depth, and everything in-between (grey) having a depth in space.
What I did find was expected:
plastic bottles of water: black
empty glass cups: black
empty glass bottles: black
single pain glass: transparent
every pair of jeans in the house: grey
Every fabric in the house: grey
I figured since I didn't have any really shiny jeans, I would try different materials over jeans. I used plastic Saran wrap, wax paper and aluminum foil. Only the aluminum foil appeared black, when it was reflecting the light away from the sensor at more than a 45 degree angle, as would a mirror. However as the aluminum foil was used more and lost it's smooth surface, it became less likely to reflect the IR away since it was no longer reflecting the projected IR dot away so it could not be picked up by the sensor.
So unless you are wearing jeans with a chrome finish, I have high confidence that denim jeans will not affect the Kinect's depth sensor.
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