I thought this was funny yet cool enough to post. Especially since I’m a new newly minted father.
Imagine using your Xbox 360 Kinect as a baby monitor. What, with it’s infrared camera and it’s 3D depth movement recognition… it makes sense over a typical cheap IP-camera.
In less than an hour I was watching my little boy in infrared while he slept in his bedroom. It wasn’t that hard to setup as I relied on one Kinect device and two generic laptops, capable of 40 FPS.
In this post I will take about the architecture and how you can setup Kinect quickly and easily. Even in complete darkness you can see the outline of your child asleep in bed. And if anyone walks in the room they are immediately visible, thanks to the depth sensor which consists of an infrared laser projector combined with a monochrome CMOS sensor, which captures video data in 3D under any ambient light conditions.
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Wanna know more? Read the original post:
- Bruno Terkaly – Developer Evangelist
Kinect as a Baby Monitor–I set it up in an hour
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brunoterkaly/archive/2011/07/13/kinect-as-a-baby-monitor-i-set-it-up-in-an-hour.aspx
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