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Types of Depth camera's & alternatives for position tracking

At HKU we have most of these camera's available. Inform about the possibilities at the Blackbox

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kinect 360
Kinect on Mac Mac 
Kinect on Pc

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Kinect One

Kinect on Mac Mac 
Kinect on Pc

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Kinect Azure

Kinect on Mac Mac 
Kinect on Pc

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Realsense

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Orbec Astra
plugin for Touchdesigner

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Orbec Femto Bolt & Mega

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zed 2i
Camera for depth perception, motion and AI, the ZED 2i is a durable and versatile stereo camera that can be deployed in most environments. (also outside!)
Zed in Touchdesigner

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Oak D D Lite
Spatial AI camera (open source) OAK stands for OpenCV AI Kit.
PC & Mac compatible, python setup necessary! For loan @ Blackbox
Touchdesigner setup
Data sheet or datasheet

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Leap motion 1

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Leap motion 2

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The URG-04LX-UG01 scanning laser rangefinder is a low power, small, accurate, high-speed device for obstacle detection. Using the USB interface for power and communication, this unit can obtain measurement data in a 240° field of view up to a distance of 4 meters.

download driver (link)


https://www.hokuyo-aut.jp/products/data.php?id=2


Touchdesigner has a chop for it, the Hokuyu will work when connected, in mac







Some comparison articles:
https://www.generationrobots.com/blog/en/luxonis-vs-realsense-which-depth-camera-should-i-choose/
https://docs.ipisoft.com/Depth_Sensors_Comparison  
the 3 kinects compared: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/2/413  



depth maps compared

Apps that can do body tracking tracking  for your mobile devices devices 

ZIGSimPro
an app that turns your phone/tablet into a depth sensor & tracking camera (over OSC)		 iKeleton OSC
an app that turns your phone into body tracking camera (over OSC) sending X&Y coordinates
 Media Pipe*
MediaPipe is a cross platform Framework for building machine learning pipelines for processing time-series data like video, audio, etc.  
Amongst many other possibilities it turns your webcam into a depth/tracking camera.
Mocap: optitrack TBD Mocap: Vive 2x  TBD
Vive Vive  trackers
Vive Ultimate trrackers



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