It looks like the Sporge attack on this group has ended. Though, I wish I had some sort of explanatino... did the sporger simply go on vacation for a while. Was an effective filter created?
Anyway, I posted the following to Gordon McComb's C.R.M alternative site, and thought I would bring it here to see if it starts some more discussion. To me, this seems to be a "disruptive technology"... meaning it has the potential to make significant changes to the robotics world.
It is the Z-Cam by 3DV Systems. It seems to be a time-of-flight system that generates 1 to 2 cm accuracy of depth measurements over a
1.3 meg pixel display. That is, a depth measurement for EACH PIXEL at
60 fpm. The next part, which is the real ground breaking part, is that they are marketing it as a game controller for the masses priced at uner $100.
Here is a link to their gallery, which shows some movies of it in action.
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Here is where they describe the technology;
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seems to be a system where they emit a very brief pulse of light (from LED's) and capture the image using an extremely fast gated sensor (like a vast electronic shutter).Joe Dunfee