What Kinect looks like through IR goggles (points of laser light)

And a a month later kincet will be recalled for causing cancer. 

Wow...good find. Today confirmed Kinect is complete trash for me. Thanks Giant Bomb!

Weird. I hope it's not intense enough to damage users eyes.

Jesus christ, that's insane. 
 
So that's how they track our motions, by blasting a million little light dots in the room.

I'm totally down with the tech of it all, and aside from Your Shape and Dance Central, there really wasn't much pulling me in. 
 
Of course this is day one, so who knows where this thing will go.

oh god, you can't escape! bill gates is watching you always!

Everyone realizes that those levels of IR light are completely harmless right?
 
God I hope so.  Science education in this country is so bad.  Hopefully everyone thru high school understands the basic bare bones physics of light. 
 
For fun do the same thing but look through the goggles at your TV remote while you mash some buttons.  It should be bright enough to bloom the goggles.
 
Still a pretty cool video and it's interesting to see the discrete dots of light.

damn, that just looks crazy

" Everyone realizes that those levels of IR light are completely harmless right?  God I hope so.  Science education in this country is so bad.  Hopefully everyone thru high school understands the basic bare bones physics of light.   For fun do the same thing but look through the goggles at your TV remote while you mash some buttons.  It should be bright enough to bloom the goggles. Still a pretty cool video and it's interesting to see the discrete dots of light. "

That's way cooler than I thought it would be.

Damn, that's like motion capture. Pretty cool, too bad it's not real motion capture, imagine placing balls on you.

Thats pretty cool. Its a pretty clever way of tracking movement. 

Interesting. What are your experiences with it in general, performance-wise? Latency etc. 

Interesting to see.

If it were emitting gamma rays then we have a problem. Infrared?  Sorry, but your overhead light is more intense than kinetic's infrared emitter.  

lol at the comments concerning those lasers being harmful.  I'm sure they are joking.  At least I hope so.  

" lol at the comments concerning those lasers being harmful.  I'm sure they are joking.  At least I hope so.   "

Now that is impressive.

That's totally crazy, dude. That was cool to see.

If only they were flashing, then one could throw a kickass party. 
Granted everyone would have to wear IR goggles or something, but still!

Kinect is an awesome tool for national security agencies !

So MS now has a map of everyones living room...great

" And a a month later kincet will be recalled for causing cancer.  "

" If only they were flashing, then one could throw a kickass party. Granted everyone would have to wear IR goggles or something, but still! "

" imagine placing balls on you. "

Oh god...this is how Tron started!!!

Fireflies! They're invading! 
It looks pretty cool actually, the magic of Kinect is revealed...

You should see the bedroom under UV lights.

" @Brendan said:

" lol at the comments concerning those lasers being harmful.  I'm sure they are joking.  At least I hope so.   "

Have you not seen Star Wars? Lasers will fuck you up, man. "

" And a a month later kincet will be recalled for causing cancer.  "

Here's another IR Kinect vid made by someone with better equipment :
 
  

That looks super awesome

That's super-crazy looking. :O
 
I wonder how long until someone counts all the dots.

This suddenly makes me not want Kinect at all. I didn't want it before (OK, I just didn't care), but this just makes me not want it anywhere in my house. Who here is comfortable with Microsoft spraying sperm all across their living room?

In general, no, IR isn't dangerous -- at least from naturally occurring physical processes. Yet any form of radiation -- including visible light or radio waves -- could potentially be dangerous if highly concentrated into a narrow beam (that is the principle of lasers) of very high power.  Therefore, until some  measures the intestity of the IR coming out of Kinect I wouldn't say it is 'harmless'.  Focus any electromagnetic (EM) spectrum at your eye strongly enough and you are not doing it any good.   White light won't hurt you eye unless you look at a high watt bulb, that same is true of IR, pump enough of it at your eye and GOOD LUCK.  Moreover, since IR is not   consciously  sensed your eye doesn't reflex to shut you eye when IR is too strong.    

" @Brendan said:

" lol at the comments concerning those lasers being harmful.  I'm sure they are joking.  At least I hope so.   "

Have you not seen Star Wars? Lasers will fuck you up, man. "

In general, no, IR isn't dangerous -- at least from naturally occurring physical processes. Yet any form of radiation -- including visible light or radio waves -- could potentially be dangerous if highly concentrated into a narrow beam (that is the principle of lasers) of very high power.  Therefore, until some  measures the intestity of the IR coming out of Kinect I wouldn't say it is 'harmless'.  Focus any electromagnetic (EM) spectrum at your eye strongly enough and you are not doing it any good.   White light won't hurt you eye unless you look at a high watt bulb, that same is true of IR, pump enough of it at your eye and GOOD LUCK.  Moreover, since IR is not   consciously  sensed your eye doesn't reflex to shut you eye when IR is too strong.

Too freaky to have in my house. Another reason why I would prefer Move over Kinect.