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Originally Posted by MaxKinect
Because the Kinect controller uses a pattern match on a non-repeating caustic pattern it is very resistant to interference. When there is a problem, the area of the problem is marked with a 'unknown' depth code (2047).
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I think there will be more interference then you expect. Current tests have revealed that two Kinect's pointed at the same area
at a 90 degree angle show little interference but
six Kinect's pointed at any varying angle, possibly all at each other will render it useless. Just think if you could see the infrared pattern with 6 Kinect's pointed at the same area (which you can with an infrared camera or infrared goggles) all you will see is a big infrared blob, not a pattern. There's no way the computer could make sense of something like that and give you enough information to make your algorithms work.
It would be pretty easy for defender robots to use the Kinect or similar allowed-lasers to mess with it if they wanted. And not to be pessimistic but even people from the audience or other team members could use items to interfere and no one could know because its invisible to the eye. Even things like camera auto-focusing that release IR wavelengths could interfere to a certain degree.
I think it's great that there's people out there that are pushing to use this but I simply don't think that the technology is mature enough to use easily because it posses too many potential uncertainties in different situations for any algorithm you may throw at it. So far everything it's been used for (including Microsoft) and has actually worked reasonably well has been done in very very controlled environments.
Just my 2 cents.