Microsoft’s Kinect excels at registering depth in 3D space, but filmmakers still want high definition video for creating detailed visceral artwork. An open source initiative known as RGB+D has created a workflow for laying HD video on top of depth maps from the Kinect’s 3D sensor to create shimmering, dream-like videos with their RGBDToolkit.
The RGBDToolkit workflow involves affixing a DSLR on top of a Kinect and calibrating the two using a specifically formatted checkerboard pattern in conjunction with the software. After the two are calibrated, the camera and Kinect can be freely moved around a scene at the filmmaker’s discretion. Once the scene has been captured, the RGBDToolkit allows the editor to easily correlate the 3D data from…
from The Verge – All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/2/2993117/3d-filmmaking-open-source-RGBD