Video courtesy of Microsoft Research
We love Kinect hacks here at Immersive Tech but we never thought we would see one from Microsoft themselves! I am not even sure if it considered a hack as much as a new proprietary use. Anyway, Microsoft has developed KinectFusion, a fast and easy way to turn anything and everything into a 3D model. It works by simply letting the Kinect gather its depth map while you move it around the room or object and it will put together the 3D model in real time! Although the video starts out slow (thanks for the lack of music Microsoft), it picks up when they start showing the models in action. I will let the video speak for itself, it is pretty amazing!
Once KinectFusion has the model, it can then recognize movement or orientation changes of that object. This means on the very simplest level that events like
