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Re: Kinect is Legal for Both Drive Station and Field Use (Here’s why)

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Originally Posted by MaxKinect View Post
Would it be possible to replace the Kinect IR Emitter with a standard IR led of the same power ratting.
No. An incoherent light source would not work with the pattern grating. It must be a laser.

(Perhaps a "QWLED" device that I remember reading about a couple of decades ago would work. It produced coherent but highly divergent light, suitable for tabletop holography. I never heard about it again, so perhaps it never made it to an actual product.)