Kinect: DaVinchi App. (WoW)

[zarx]

Mendicate Bias said:

zarx said:

Mendicate Bias said:

The key point is that IR cameras are available to anyone that walks into an electronics store. Good luck walking into an electronics store and finding a cheap 3D camera though, heck good luck finding any 3D camera besides kinect.

What Metralha is trying to say is that the things kinect does can be done by any other camera, that is a complete lie. Thats not to say that the wii-mote isn't very good at what it does but to act like everything that kinect can do can be done with a wiimote is complete bullcrap.

the fact is that what the video he posted showed is basically the same effect as kinect uses, only instead of using kinect's 2 IR cameras to track depth & motion it uses 2 Wii mote IR cameras, You have defeated your own argument, the things Kinect does can be done by any 2 IR cameras that you can walk into an electronics store and buy.

No I haven't. The device uses the two IR cameras to track the users hand position, however all the software and other hardware needed to achieve that is custom built by that research group. You can't just put two IR cameras together and viola achieve 3D tracking, it requires a lot more software and hardware than that. Not everyone has a multi-million dollar research lab at their disposal.

With Kinect all the software and hardware comes complete out of the box and even an amateur hacker can achieve full body 3D tracking. I don't see why this is so hard for you to understand?

Not to mention thats not even his argument. His argument is that there is nothing Kinect can do that any old camera or wii can't. That is false, the wii has no way of tracking your entire body.

the custom hardware is for the hologram stuff the actual tracking is being handled by two wii motes, yes it needs custom software but so do all the kinect hacks for the PC it theory with some slight modification that software could work with any two IR cameras there isn't really anything that special about the kinect, any amature hacker could achieve it. 

here is a guide http://3dbruce.blogspot.com/ just replace the cameras with IR ones and start working on modifying some kinect drivers and you are set, have fun.