So that's who bought the unsold kinects. Newark is my main airport, guess I'll keep an eye out on them next time I'm there.
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Airport found using Xbox Kinects for surveillance
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So that's who bought the unsold kinects. Newark is my main airport, guess I'll keep an eye out on them next time I'm there.
people ITT coming to "OLOL KINECT" know that the latest Kinect, Azure Kinect, just started arriving in devs hands just a short while ago, right? Kinect isn't dead in the enterprise world.
Kinda humourous how the Kinect has been least useful in gaming.
If I recall correctly, weren't they used in healthcare for medical imaging or something?
If I recall correctly, weren't they used in healthcare for medical imaging or something?
I remember people using kinect and Blender for cheap motioncapture for their games. Not sure if they still do but it really seems that the thing was more useful for other things than being a full body motion controller for games.
What is it used for? Looks kinda cool.
people ITT coming to "OLOL KINECT" know that the latest Kinect, Azure Kinect, just started arriving in devs hands just a short while ago, right? Kinect isn't dead in the enterprise world.
What is it used for? Looks kinda cool.
people ITT coming to "OLOL KINECT" know that the latest Kinect, Azure Kinect, just started arriving in devs hands just a short while ago, right? Kinect isn't dead in the enterprise world.
While I knew the product was used a bunch in the medical field when it first dropped I had no clue they were still putting money into R&D for new models. That's pretty damn nifty!
Depth scanning cameras are used in lots of industries, they're 3D point scanners. They're used in plastics tooling a lot as well.
Kinect 2 hasn't been used much lately because it's 6 years old. Newer handheld 3D scanners like the ones from EinScan overtook kinect in the enterprise world several years ago. That's why the newest Kinect (basically Kinect 3) just launched.
It's leaps and bounds better than the previous Kinect in terms of fidelity, too.
This type of tech is very useful for face modeling in video games, btw.
3D scanning. The "azure" part refers to how you can hold it in your hand to scan models and it'll use AI to stitch the several scans that happen from your hand's orientation into a full 3D model. Ironically, this is actually pretty close to the original Kinect pitch where the dude held up his skateboard and it became a 3D model in the game. It's not quite that for consumer applications, but that's one actual application in enterprise world. An example would be a car manufacturer who sculpts small models out of clay for a concept car, who can scan it into their computer and have the clay model instantly turn into a 3D model on their computer.
Someone mentioned this before, I wonder if MS would have been better of selling the Kinect for other uses than gaming. Seems they had a good idea, but it wasn't targeted towards the right people.
Hmm, really? How have you been enjoying Kinect Sports Rivals? Or uh... Kinect... Sports Rivals?
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I understand it's new and only dev kits are out? Will this be available to buy for regular customers and do you know how much one of those costs?
this was 5 years ago using Kinect 1. Kinect 2 was already an extreme jump in quality over this, and now Azure Kinect actually includes AI support to handle the stitching Oliver Kreylos had to do manually in these tests.
That's a cozy battlestation though.This is in my home office RIGHT NOW:
They're "dev kits" in that they're intended to be used in enterprise, but they're a full consumer release really. You don't have to apply to get one, it's just like buying a product. They're $400, which is way, waaaaay below the other 3D scanners I mentioned in this topic. Gamers don't really know how big this field is. There are $10k+ 3D scanners out there, Kinect has always been a comparatively great tech at a very low price vs the competition.
I would love to have Kinect back again, sad to see it gone.
That was Sony.
That was Sony.
I know people love to shit on the Kinect, but it was always a solid tech especially at the price, and on PC it's still being iterated upon even though gamers don't care anymore. Where I work we used a Kinect for a prototype this year, as the tech offered is mighty impressive for the entry point even on older versions.
Nice. I remember we (not in my department, but within the company I work for) worked with Kinect some time ago. It was a cheap AF prototyping tool. It wasn't perfect but worked very well for what amounted to zero bucks in an field where any kind of hardware quickly costs in the thousands.people ITT coming to "OLOL KINECT" know that the latest Kinect, Azure Kinect, just started arriving in devs hands just a short while ago, right? Kinect isn't dead in the enterprise world.
This is in my home office RIGHT NOW:
You're getting more glare(s) than a black person at the RNC.
Yeah, now that it has ai handling the stitching and its transitioned to a handheld scanner, the latest kinects are super useful. Its also nice that there is finally good pc support, kinect 2's Microsoft pc support really died after windows 8. So azure kinect is worth it from a software standpoint if you are looking at 3d scanners.
Supposedly the Xbox one Kinect can read and translate American sign language, but die to MS not paying the license for it, they had to disable it.
I still use it. I play Fruit Ninja and Boom Ball with my 7 year old son. It is great fun and we have great time.
I have also spotted Kinect in the Lego World Theme Park. They were used in 3D adventure rides to detect motion and throw virtual fireballs at the Great Devourer from Ninjago (that was ofcourse with my son as well).
It was still massively successful for a time, so I think Microsoft had the right idea. Additionally, that mass production and (short-lived) consumer adoption allowed the Kinect to be sold for a far cheaper price than equivalent B2B hardware, which definitely increased the number of cases of people finding interesting, niche use cases.
Honestly, I think the Kinect was almost ahead of its time. The hardware wasn't quite there for games, and they blundered on the marketing hard when it came to forcing its inclusion with the One at launch. Considering the prevalence of always-on smart devices in consumer homes nowadays, I wonder if it would have been far more successful if it was launched a few years in to the Xbox One instead of the 360.
No, its inherently latent technology.
Depth scanning cameras are how they achieve markerless inside out positional tracking, though.
And that's not as good as when one of the Paranormal Activity movies happened almost entirely from a Kinect's POV as part of a product placement deal with MS.