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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Kinect V2 Motion Sensor

Microsoft Kinect V2 Motion Sensor

"The new standard for motion control"

Kinect is a line of motion sensing input devices by Microsoft for video game consoles and Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral, it enables users to control and interact with their console/computer without the need for a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands.

The second-generation Kinect for Windows, based on the same core technology as Kinect for Xbox One, including a new sensor, was first released in 2014.

The new Kinect uses a wide-angle time-of-flight camera, and processes 2 gigabits of data per second to read its environment. The new Kinect has greater accuracy with three times the fidelity over its predecessor and can track without visible light by using an active IR sensor. It has a 60% wider field of vision that can detect a user up to 3 feet from the sensor, compared to six feet for the original Kinect, and can track up to 6 skeletons at once. It can also detect a player's heart rate, facial expression, the position and orientation of 25 individual joints (including thumbs), the weight put on each limb, speed of player movements, and track gestures performed with a standard controller. Kinect's microphone is used to provide voice commands for actions such as navigation, starting games, and waking the console from sleep mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect

http://www.kinectforwindows.com/

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories/kinect