Adinnieken said:
No. Kinect 2 is significantly better than Kinect. They aren't even comparable.
Kinect used a passive infrared system, where an area is blanketted with IR light, and the temperature/strength of that light is measured to calculate the distance. It's a technology that's fraught with peril, as it can easily be washed out in bright sunlight.
Kinect 2 uses a passive infrared system, where a laser scans the room and depth and motion is measured based on the time it takes for the light (photons) to return from the surface it's shot at. This is the same technology used by satellites to map the earth, it's called LIDAR. Kinect 2 is so much better than Kinect, that it is possible for Kinect 2 to measure your heart rate. In fact, it is possible for it to detect certain medical conditions as they're happening.
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Any source for those claims? Because everything I've read so far sounded like Kinect 2 is pretty much Kinect 1, just at a higher resolution (+ a new infrared stream, which however sounded like it was pretty much only useful as a low-resolution replacement for the RGB stream in low-light sitations).
Now I would agree that increasing the resolution is a clear improvement that should help accuracy, but I'd hardly call that "not even comparable to Kinect 1".
