Kinect

3D depth camera
recognise human poses

compared¶

similar to Intel Realsense

The Kinect V2 is optimized to 0.5m ~4.5m while RealSense are designed for 0.2m~1.2m depends on different devices.
The RealSense is more a desktop usage to capture faces and gestures, instead the Kinect V2 could do better to capture the full body actions with all joints.

Intel SDK is nothing like competition. Leap is better at hand tracking, ULSee at facial landmarks, Kinect at body tracking (there is none in Realsense) etc.

links¶

• video, no instructions: stunning DSLR footage combined with 3D data post - 2012
• lots of Kinect resources site,

xbox

Backlinks¶

• thermal imager
  • The Kinect IR sensor works with an IR wavelength not far away from visible light (830nm), which is too short for thermal imaging. It can be modded to act as a IR camera by adding covert illumination: see blog
• Structured Light
  • Kinect for Xbox 360