Kinect One as a poor man's laser scanner?

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Hi guys,

I’m intrigued by the idea to try using Kinect One as a poor man’s laser scanner. It should not be hard to write an application that saves Depth stream as a ptx or e57 file and then import it into RC for reconstruction. Before I write an proof-of-concept app I wanted to know your opinion. Does it make sense to try this?

(this is not really a request for feature, it is just a discussion of an idea)

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Someone had the idea before CapturingReality and Kinect 2

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Only one way to find out so I’ve made a Proof of concept application made in VVVV (requires DX11 pack). Download here:
http://id144.org/uploads/KinectV2_to_PTX.zip

Sample dataset scanned in my kitchen:
http://id144.org/uploads/KinectV2_to_PT … ataset.zip

When I import the PTX file, they almost never align, when the do, the aligment does not really make sense. :expressionless:
I guess I’m missing something.

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Hi,

I’m also interested in using depth data from Kinect.

Did you succeed in doing something working?

Thanks