Question
Azure Kinect Depth Camera Announced
The Azure Kinect is a new dev kit from Microsoft featuring the sensors from the Hololens 2.
It's half the size of the Kinect 2 and features:
- 7 microphone array
- 1MP time of flight depth camera
- 12MP RGB camera
- IMU (accel & gyro) with 1.6kHz sample rate and 208Hz reporting to pc
- support for Azure based cloud processing of data (but Azure not required to use it)
- sync in and out ports to daisy chain multiple Kinects so they can work together without interfering with each other.
It can do 4K RGB at 30Hz.
It's depth camera can do modes such as:
- 320x288x30Hz FOV:75x65 Range:5.46m
- 512x512x30Hz FOV:120x120 Range:2.88m
- 1024x1024x15Hz FOV:120x120 Range:2.21m
and a couple more in between.
Unfortunately none of it's RGB camera modes (there's 6) support 60Hz.
It's launching in June 27 for $400us.
The raw sensor data and body tracking sdks aren't available yet, so I don't know the specs for body tracking (which is the most potentially useful part for Rift owners).
I'm looking at it more for it's depth scanning ability. I like my Zed Mini, but it needs a powerful system to run and it's single frame depth scan is lacking.
I guess the main downside for me is that it's only suitable for environments of 10 to 25 degrees C, which means Australia will kill it.