Microsoft's First Chip Brings Tank-Finding Design to Xbox

[z-e-r-o]

They seem to be quite dedicated to ToF, as they bought not one but two companies (3DV Systems, Canesta) just to have their own inhouse ToF system [1].

I found two images from the inside of Kinect One, if someone is interested: [2] [3], from the Wired article [4]

The processing system on the other hand might be in-house, or probably with the help of their amazing MS Research team. The demo in this video is absolutely state-of-the-art tracking: [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-flight_camera [2] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2013/05/20130514... [3] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2013/05/20130514... [4] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one-development-... [5] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one/

[steve19]

This does not sound right. I would genuinely like to see a source where they use time of flight, a range finding technique, to detect tanks at long range in daylight when you could instead use active radar or passive thermal technology (focal plane array/starring array [0][1] , to detect a tank.

(My experience is with infantry-level night vision and thermal scopes. I don't know anything in depth about how munitions detect tanks)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staring_array [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermographic_camera

[Arelius]

> The Kinect chips, designed by a team mostly based in Microsoft’s Silicon Valley office, use a technology called Time of Flight

I was under the impression that the (original) Kinect didn't actually use time of flight to get it's depth data. Can anyone comment on this?

[btn]

The original Kinect did not use time-of-flight technology, but projected a structured infrared light pattern and observed the displacement of the pattern to determine depth information. The Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One will use time-of-flight sensing (probably from the ZCam assets they bought with 3DV Systems).