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Useful product, although I'm dismayed its not a device that can build a point cloud of the whole room yet (and use said point cloud for rendering on a mobile device, as well as high-resolution measurements).

Look what tech innovation has done to my expectations of products :(

Room scanning point cloud with Kinect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhg3_ZgRK68

Boiler Room Point Cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1l0X46rOAU

Point cloud of living room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6eRG3Q27Lw

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Hey, my name is Toby from Senic. We're focusing on these simple solutions for the building industry first because they are under really high cost and time pressure and it help them the most. With our SDK and API, it's a really flexible product. We're already working on integrating it into different robots etc for some of the mentioned functions. If you have any good suggestions, please drop me a line.

Is there an email where we can do that? There isn't one in your profile or on the senic page.

Also your website is being rendered very strangely.

http://snag.gy/wCkIm.jpg http://snag.gy/2PXRW.jpg

Please write me a direct email: support(a)senic.com. I will respond asap.

What you're looking for is Matterport: http://matterport.com/ (another YC company)

No image of the product and a preorder button. If this weren't a YC company I'd dismiss it and move on.

Still, the scans seem promising.

If they used a standard Kinect and sold an iPad app, they'd end up selling it for 99 cents because "it's just an app".

But sell a $30 device for $149 and you can make much more money per customer. Much easier to build a sustainable business that way.

This device has better range and better accuracy than kinect(less than 2mm error instead of 5-25mm at 2m distance).

I wonder if you could plop this thing on a cheap pan/tilt device like Galileo (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/449163977/galileo-your-i...)

The device fits all standard tripods. This is a great idea thoug. We will contact the guy from Galileo!

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