Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python

Re:Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python by Jack000 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @05:58PM (#17383680)

a bit disappointed with the image quality. The original realsense r200 was probably the worst depth camera I've tried - it was barely better than two webcams and parallax processing. The new cameras doesn't look to be much better from the video..

I wish there was better driver support for the kinect2, still the best depth camera you can buy imo.

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Re:Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python by progr4mmatic on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:37PM (#17383823)

That wasn't the best example. Lots of noise in that high depth shot of a messy cafe + quick movement from the fan. If you look at the end of the new clip, even with high accuracy filtering, you're getting a pretty clean depth image closer up. I'm pretty happy with the D415 so far.

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Re:Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python by voxadam on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:25PM (#17383783)

Have you tried the much newer D400 cameras? I'd love to know how they compare to the Kinect 2.

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Re:Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python by Jack000 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:52PM (#17383889)

haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if they're comparable. Afaik all the non-kinect depth cameras are structured light vs ToF with the kinect2.

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Re:Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python by namibj on Saturday June 23, 2018 @07:21PM (#17384003)

The one in the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is a 35k pixel ToF, but artificially constrained in power and thus reach to live on a phone battery.

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