drkohler on 11 August 2012
| HappySqurriel said: Might be the case ... According to what I have read online, Kinect only captured images at half the sensors potential resolution because of the limited bandwith of the USB interface. |
No. The minimum speckle size is 2 by 2 pixels to make the depth math thing work reasonably reliable. Therefore the depth image is reduced from 640*480 to 320*240.
Kinect2 does not use any sensors at all. According to the leaked general docs, it uses two normal webcams (of unknown resolution at this time). This is of, course, no surprise as MS never patented anything in connection with PrimeSense or bought out that company right away (as MS usually does). MS did, however, buy out several companies working in image processing. Kinect2 will be a massive software load, therefore the high specs for the CPU in the next XBox.
