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billy gate was absolutely chuffed because nintendo wii was very cool and everyone love it but when u see xbox 360 u turn 360 degrees and walk way
the gman hired primesense to make kinect in a misguided attempt to pwn the honorable genius Shigeru Miyamoto (spoiler: remains undefeated to this day)
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- nobody never made a single good videogame ever
- gamer bros only wanted to play halo and cod blops
- nobody wants kinect and everybody threw them away
- i bought five at goodwill for $3.99 each
- visible light camera
- ir camera
- microphone
- tilt motor
- accelerometer
- compute depth by structured light projection
- they plug into USB
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- use it for 3d scanning
- infrared so it can see even in bad lighting conditions
- depth camera makes object isolation easy
- input into video synthesizers or computer generated art
- there is a kinect 2 with hd cams and usb3 and time-of-flight but its like 10x the price so dont bother
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- microsoft has a dev kit for windows who cares
- open source -- libfreenect <-- this waht im showin u. has python!!! -- linux kernel module gspca_kinect provides v4l2 device. very buggy im so sad
- OpenNI / NiTE by Primesense -- not open thats a lie -- POSE DATA!! -- JOINT ORIENTATION!!! -- uses multiple backends and other devices, including new devices -- apple bought primesense and killed development -- u can still find the binaries tho -- x86 only, no raspi ;_;