The Structure Sensor is the first 3D sensor for mobile devices

Very interesting, but practically speaking it's an answer in a search of a question. This will likely be natively supported by smartphones in a matter of 2-3 generations, so they have very limited time to figure out what the question is and to grab that niche.

But all in all, and I hate to say this, I think they will ultimately fail.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6400088

This would be very useful to make fps maps based on real world places we know, like our neighborhood or make come true a dream of a friend of mine, to play counter strike in a map simulating the university campus

Does anyone know the people behind this? i.e. could someone make an educated guess as to whether they're likely to meet their Feb 2014 ship date?

honest question: how is this different from a mobilized version of Kinect?

Another, better input for my self driving Arduino RC car platform!