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Re: Reflective Tape Purpose

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Originally Posted by robokiller View Post
I was playing around with the reflectors and the kinect and found that at any distance the reflectors appeared to be out of range on the depth finder. Is it possible that the IR emitter and receiver are just far enough apart that the IR light is reflected back to the IR emitter and not being picked up by the IR receiver.

-- Jaxon Weis
The Kinect "Out of Range" can happen in both directions. Having an object too close, or washing the IR grid out with another IR source will give you "out of range" readings on the depth feed. Using OpenKinect or another package which can access the raw IR image may result in more success.
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