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by Coeur 85 days ago
Well there was ZCam, which was a time-of-flight add-on for ENG cameras. It couldn't really handle edges perfectly and existing bluescreen tech was good enough for TV production, so they pivoted into gaming and sold to Microsoft for the Kinect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCam (Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Kcmx29RCE )