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by cma 3558 days ago
Yes, kinect 2 has around 200,000 pixels from the depth camera (512x424). I believe they said this thing only has 3,000,000 voxels. That's like 145x145x145. Barely enough to have a few voxelized Windows 3.1 desktop icons bouncing around.

It definitely seems like just something cool to have sitting around at this stage, like a lava lamp or something.

As long as they can keep improving the res, it could eventually be useful, but will they get there before unobtrusive AR glasses?

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~1500px X 104px X 10px which probably is enough to be interesting and of course this is a gen 1 device. I suspect bandwidth is a major issue as this is already close to 1080p pixels.