Scan the world with your Kinect
… Or with your ASUS Xtion:
As you may know I work as a software developer for FARO Technologies. We recently released a Windows application called SCENECT that can be used to create point clouds of the environment while using a Kinect or Xtion as “camera”. The software was well received by professional operators of 3D tools, and is available for free in FARO’s application store. There are also plenty of tutorial videos on YouTube, e.g. about creating a polygon model out of your point cloud. There’s also an interesting thread in the laser scanning forum that features several cool scan projects and advanced scanning techniques. Kudos to my colleagues Rasmus Debitsch and Gerrit Hillebrand who are the main developers of SCENECT.
Meanwhile, we also released the new versions of our main application SCENE 5.1, which is used to process and visualize point clouds gathered with our Focus 3D laser scanner, and its associated web viewer SCENE WebShare 5.1. The new WebShare version was mainly developed by me, by the way. You can have a look at it on our official SCENE WebShare server:
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Okay that’s cool tech here, but I don’t really have any need for that. Bye!
wish I had the gear to do this. Very impressive software and idea.
Keep Calm and Woo on!
As a gamer who frown upon motion gaming (all of them) I always said that Kinect is NOT for video gaming but much better for research/work/study. I think this is just another proof that Kinect is better for them.
Rad. Does it work under Wine, though?
@Novil
Ok, I’ll bite. Whats a point cloud?
E wrote:
I think it should work, but I’m not sure that was ever tested.
Bucc_i wrote:
3D “pixels” in space, usually arranged in a data structure of some kind that makes navigating in (near) real-time possible. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_cloud
Neat! I use one of FARO’s Photon 120 scanners at work. 3D scanning technology just keeps getting better.
I am looking for a sample project file that I can download and experiment with.
Do you have one or a link to one.
I have the software downloaded but have not gotten the Kinnect yet.
Thank You