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We have had a few people send us this video today and it's pretty damn cool. It features Dr. Oliver Kreylos of UC Davis as he shows off what seems to be the beginning of his work with Kinect to recreate physical objects in a 3D space.

It's damn neat stuff, particularly once he rotates the scene and you can see the edges of Kinect's viewpoint clearly. All of this stiff people are doing with Kinect on their computers is hyping me up to have one of my own more than anything Microsoft has released on it to date. 

Look below and see another video of Dr. Kreylos using the Kinect camera to reconstruct a physical object in his 3D space and then measure it to determine the accuracy of the representation. Thrilling stuff, this is.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]








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Skoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 03:11
Skoll
neet!
TheGreekDollmaker's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 03:21
TheGreekDollmaker
Ok i have to admit that is pretty awesome.

I still hold to the idea that Kinect is more Fit for a business machine rather than a videogame console.
MichMasteR's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 03:44
MichMasteR
Borderlands cell shade ftw
tehTommy's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 03:53
tehTommy
That is awesome. So far I am more convinced to get Kinect by people who play around with the PC driver than by Microsoft and Rare.
Boomsling's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 04:25
Boomsling
stiff people rock!
Tablet's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 04:28
Tablet
That was fantastic!
severius's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 05:15
severius
Way too cool. Wonder how long for the first 3d kinect sex tape to hit the net? lol
Sexualchocolate's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 05:18
Sexualchocolate
Ok, so 3d camera takes accurate 3d footage.

Still doesn't seem useful for games.
Lichtonatus's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 05:39
Lichtonatus
Hard to troll something when everyone already hates it in its intended form eh chocolate?
The technology behind it, however, could be used for some other very cool applications, as we're seeing from the number of people fiddling with its intimates.
jazzpanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 05:57
jazzpanda
I wonder how long before we see 2 or 3 kinects hooked up together, at different points in a room, to create total 360 degree camera hijinks..
nanowerx's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 06:20
nanowerx
@SC

Haha you can't even give a compliment without being seemingly begrudged about it. May not seem useful to you for games, but I've been playing it for 2 weeks now and I have been having a blast and thats with just casual games, so I can only imagine how badass this thing gets when the core games start rolling out next year.
KungFuGoblin's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 06:26
KungFuGoblin
This is seriously cool. I work in a physics lab and am now thinking up ways of using this idea for integrating into modelling!
tohdom's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 07:25
tohdom
kinect does impressive wonders, but not for gaming (at least yet)
Crumpet Lips's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 07:35
Crumpet Lips
In theory, if you used 3 Kinect's in one room to triangulate and capture the entire room, you would be able to map everything in that room and it would all be solid. So instead of that guy being cut through the middle because it only see's that side of him, you could see him with 3 angles, wrapping him all up and closing all of the 3D 'holes' of the environment.

If only Kinect was here in Australia already, I would love to try this theory out and expand on this guys idea
Synesthesia's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 07:54
Synesthesia
this shows just how uncreative microsoft developers are
ok , me have a thing that reconstructs 3d space from a 2d image,

so lets clone wii games.
qlum's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 07:58
qlum
so if you use multiple natal's you can recreate a whole room in 3d
qlum's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 08:03
qlum
so if you use multiple natal's you can recreate a whole room in 3d
Sexualchocolate's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 08:07
Sexualchocolate
@qlum - Hate to be picky, but a "Natal" isn't a thing.

Natal - an interesting and seriously impressive motion capture PROJECT.

Kinect - the retail product derived from project Natal.
amtalx's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 08:33
amtalx
Holy shit that's cool.
Ujn Hunter's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 08:47
Ujn Hunter
It will be cool once someone creates software to save model formats, you can use your own 3d scanner. Model maquettes in clay and scan into your 3D modeling software. Neat.
Ryze's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 09:12
Ryze
This is better than all of the fucking Kinect games ever made. Someone get Yu Suzuki and Yuji Naka to make some Kinect 'ground up' projects.
eskimo bob's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 09:28
eskimo bob
This reminds me a lot of that head-motion tracking stuff we saw shortly after the Wii's release. Unfortunately, I think we'll be seeing as little as we saw from that video here.
catsithx's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 09:31
catsithx
wow something cool with the kinect. Well that opens a world of possibility now.
Holiday's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 10:31
Holiday
This reminds me of that 3D camera used by police investigators for crime scenes.

Also can 3D porn not be far away?
Holesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 10:58
Holesome
If MS came out with some game that involved using 3 kinects to model my room, or objects within it in full 3d and a game that involved playing on or with the 3d scanned models I'd probably buy two more kinect cameras. I've said in the past that the real solution for kinect is to have more than 1 camera. Additional cameras would significantly increase the accuracy of kinect. A camera from behind also means you could play a game with your real-time image shown of your back as if you are looking over your own sholder.
Mr Andy Dixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 11:14
Mr Andy Dixon
Wait, I thought Kinect was just an expensive EyeToy?
brundlefly's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 11:23
brundlefly
That's way cooler than anything Microsoft tried to show off.
Chongo Power's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 11:58
Chongo Power
This is cool as hell.
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 11:58
pedrovay2003
I think this is the reason to own Kinect.
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 12:27
fetusmilk
i believe the kinect will have way more of a use for the PC industry than the consoles.
resistancia's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 12:40
resistancia
this is really cool, kinect might be used for lots of things, speciallly on videos (i mean independen short films or stuff like that) i hope dr kreylos continue with his work. on the oother side this is cool and interesting but not fun at all, playing with kinect its a blast ive played kinectimal and its pretty fun kids love it, same with dance central (i only play the demo but i like it a lot and im not a dancing person)the only people who hate kind are a bunch of fat angry people, period.
indigit4l's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 13:05
indigit4l
I believe porn is the entire reason almost any technology is created. Computers, networks, video and imaging, video games... the list goes on.

Soon we'll be about to zoom in and out and all around some sexy-time.
Jon B's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 14:17
Jon B
I've got to agree with SC here. Natal was an interesting project in technology, but limiting it to games was a foolish move, since it REALLY, REALLY restricts what you can do with games in some ways to open up a limited selection of others.

It's decent kit, but not a gaming piece of kit. The fact that the PC crowd is already making things more interesting than what MS are offering is a sign of that.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/15/2010 14:29
Darren Nakamura
That is extremely cool. I wonder who will be the first to use three Kinects simultaneously to have an image without those "shadows."
huntermc's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/17/2010 15:17
huntermc
Ever since Project Natal was announced, I've been hoping that someone would find a way to use this technology for a cheap, simple way to do motion capture for 3D character modeling like in Poser and Daz3D. As it is, posing a 3D figure in these programs is tedious work, but with some kind of plugin for Kinect it could be as simple as standing in front of your computer and striking a pose. I'd buy one for that before I would for the games.

Also, there's already plenty of 3D pr0n out there - just do a google search for "poser porn."
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