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Generate 3D maps of rooms with your Kinect

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11 pointshellcow11 comments

Disappointing, total link bait. Almost 0 data on the project, just a email signup form and a link to digikey for a beagle-board (affiliate?).

The 'sample data' is not encouraging either. The 'map' looks like a few raw shots out of the kinect camera.

Hey sleepybrett, we're trying to get early feedback on the project before we release it, as well as compile a list of people that are interested, so we can involve them in the open source development of Eyeball.

No, that's not an affiliate link... Just the cheapest place to buy them. I have no affiliation with that company whatsoever.

It's difficult to demo the 3d map running in the browser with screenshots (that's why I tried to show two separate angles), but I'll put together a video and upload it to the site later today.

Wouldn't it be possible to use WebGL to display the point cloud?

We use Three.js to render the point cloud in the browser. We're running into some performance issues (point clouds often have 1MM+ points, which doesn't render very well yet), but we're implementing some heavy compression (voxelgrid filters, etc) and optimizations.

WebGL may be a better option, and I'll look into it.

When you have something to show I'll happily look at it, right now you don't seem to have anything to show. While other have suggested spiffy new web tech's to show your data, your commercial competition fell back on good ol' fashioned youtube.

http://matterport.com/

Seriously though, hackernews is littered with links to one-pagers with scant information and a newsletter sign up. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

hellcow,

Would it be possible to map something larger than a room? I want to map a small courtyard in a park near my house

Absolutely. Right now, the only limit to the size of the map is the size of your SD card. A 16gb card should be more than enough to map that courtyard as well as your entire house or office.

Sounds great. I'm definitely interested.

Click download on eyeballOS.com, leave your email, and we'll give you early access on May 15th

Done! Looking forward to it. I would obviously love some more information between now and then. Do y'all have a FAQ or a blog?

Not yet. We'll have to set something up to show our progress

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