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Originally Posted by davidthefat

I do not want to argue, I said the technology is nothing new, never said the said technology was cheap. The fundamental ideas have been used for quite a long time, in fact, its in the book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item...pe=2&tid=10138. The projection of an image is projected onto the object which the camera picks up and processes. Nothing new.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...izNXvg&cad=rja

Ok, that is a valid point. The basics of the approach are nothing new.

Most prior implementations of this approach either used visible light which has the downside of being, well, visible as well as a number of others or used lasers which are expensive.