[4eyes] [Allosphere-wg] [Fwd: Microsoft Project Natal]

[Tobias Hollerer]

Yes, the zCam (Microsoft purportedly bought its creator company
Israel-based 3DV Systems -
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/10/microsoft_3dv_mou/ )
impressed audiences at the last two SIGGRAPHs.
I was very impressed at the speed and accuracy of the
3D scene capturing (2-5 meters away from the camera).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCam

3DVs website however does not mention Microsoft (yet?) and
its Press section ends with articles from January 2008.
Interesting to see how this will play out.

Cheers,

	T.



marcos wrote:
> It does 100 Hz/full-scene/per pixel range scanning based on 
> "time-of-flight" of pulsed light, plus all the other goodies. 
> 
> Here's the principle it works under: 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-flight_camera
> 
> Pretty useful, no doubt. 
> 
> Marcos
> 
> 
> On Jun 2, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Tobias Hollerer wrote:
> 
>> *From: *Tobias Hollerer <holl at cs.ucsb.edu <mailto:holl at cs.ucsb.edu>>
>> *Date: *June 2, 2009 6:06:44 PM PDT
>> *To: *ilab-users at lists.cs.ucsb.edu 
>> <mailto:ilab-users at lists.cs.ucsb.edu>, cs280 at lists.cs.ucsb.edu 
>> <mailto:cs280 at lists.cs.ucsb.edu>
>> *Subject: **[4eyes] Microsoft Project Natal*
>>
>>
>>
>> By now you may have heard about the splash that
>> Microsoft's introduction of Project Natal made
>> at E3 yesterday:
>>
>> http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/
>>
>> It will be interesting to see to what extent this
>> will catch on commercially.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>>
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