*The pace is picking up. This is a Kinect hack, but if this were a Leap hack, you'd be 3D volumizing your house and your body to an accuracy of a sub-millimeter in a few minutes.
*There are already a lot of fast, cheap ways to stitch up panoramas – but not searingly-accurate, lidar-style, volumetric, panoramas so accurate that you could see a room expand when the sunlight hit it. Not the kind of panoramas where you can place an augment on the wall and nail it there so it quivers less than Jell-O. Nobody's done such activities yet, but clearly they're technically possible now. Strange new things are on the way.
*Check out the video here:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/27/skanect
"French startup Manctl has created a working answer to the question, "Have you ever wanted to produce a full-colour 3D model of your house?" Its solution was to use Microsoft's Kinect for Windows, coupled with its own 3D mapping software.
"Manctl's first product, Skanect, allows anyone with a Kinect to rotate it around a room, providing the Skanect software with visual information that it stitches together to form a complete 3D image. Much like a computer-aided design (CAD) drawing, the user is then able to zoom in or out of, rotate and navigate an on-screen 3D version of whatever was scanned.
"We're working on a scanner that lets you scan people, objects and rooms," co-founder and CTO Nicolas Burrus explained to Wired.co.uk this week..."
