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Kinect-carrying drone automatically builds 3D maps of rooms. Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment.

Kinect-carrying drone automatically builds 3D maps of rooms

The drone itself is a lightweight UAV with four rotors, an antenna, protective and stabilising shielding and the guts of a Kinect sensor. It communicates with a nearby laptop, but all sensing and computation to determine position is done onboard an internal computer. The quadrocopter runs an MIT-developed real-time visual odometry algorithm to work out location and velocity estimates, which helps stabilise the vehicle during its fully autonomous 3D flight. Kinect for Windows Blog. BUILD—Microsoft’s annual developer conference—is the perfect showcase for inventive, innovative solutions created with the latest Microsoft technologies.

Kinect for Windows Blog

As we mentioned in our previous blog, some of the technologists who have been part of the Kinect for Windows v2 developer preview program are here at BUILD, demonstrating their amazing apps. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at how Kinect for Windows v2 has spawned creative leaps forward at two innovative companies: Freak’n Genius and Reflexion Health. Left: A student is choosing a Freak’n Genius character to animate in real time for a video presentation on nutrition. Right: Vera, by Reflexion Health can track a patient performing physical therapy exercises at home and give her immediate feedback on her execution while also transmitting the results to her therapist.

Mercredi notes that YAKiT is already being used for storytelling, marketing, education reports, enhanced communication, or just having fun. ASUS Xtion vs MS Kinect Comparison - iPiSoft Wiki. 3D scanning with Kinect.

3D Scanning

Touch Screen. Presentation Tech. KinVi 3D: a Kinect-Enabled Virtual Interface Gadget for Windows Control.