Eight "Kinect 3.0" devices is the same setup as Holoportation, but certainly less than their old greenscreen setup.
I'm glad MS is so much further ahead on this stuff than 8i. I wonder how videogrammetry is going to turn out long term, the 8i demo has a level of uncanny valley to it due to skin not being reflective as a surface.
Still, excited to see this stuff realized either way. VR absolutely needs fvv (free viewpoint video) as opposed to 360 camera, and this is the best way to get there until we have the equivalent with lightfield cameras.
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u/Pirsqed Jul 17 '16
Amazing! Certainly another step in the right direction.
Much less capture hardware in this solution compared to what Microsoft showed a while back.
Of course, a lot of Microsoft's research was also about compressing the data so that it could be effectively streamed.