With every passing day, more and more of the technology created by Microsoft for their gaming device Kinect is broken down and reconstructed in new ways that might very well change the future of open-source technology. We’ve seen how the Kinect can be used to create new interfaces with PCs and other simple re-purposing, but it seems that we’re still waiting to see the demonstration that will proves just how revolutionary the technology may prove to be.
Now, YouTube user Oliver Kreylos may have done just that, combining multiple Kinect cameras to create an accurate 3D reconstruction of an object in real time.
Millions of consumers lined up to get their chance to ‘become the controller’ when the Xbox 360 peripheral first launched, and Microsoft thinks the sales will only continue to grow. If you’re anything like the staff here at Game Rant, then your first glimpses of Kinect were immediately followed by hours of wondering if this would finally bring us Star Wars-level holograms. The technology isn’t there just yet, but not through any faults of technology.
A number of different experiments have been run by ‘okreylos,’ with one of the most interesting and entertaining being the combination of the Kinect’s depth sensors with its camera. After successfully blending the image and the depth information together, it was possible to reproduce a representation of a given object in three dimensions.
Kreylos is far more capable of explaining the work, so have a look for yourself at where the experiment first started:
