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Re:How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video] by enominezerum on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:39AM (#27749237)
I remember this one setup in an aquarium where you could move sand around and the Kinect would read how you have the sand formed and apply geological effects to it.

Pile it high, mountain, carve it out, water and eventually sea. It was pretty amazing as it was all projected into the sand in real time and looked just amazing.

Think it was running on some 1080 or 1080-Ti when that was king of graphics cards.

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Re:How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video] by bingidingi on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @04:57PM (#27754137)
That's an augmented reality sandbox! You can make one yourself: https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/
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Re:How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video] by geerlingguy on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:36AM (#27761587)
A lot of local science centers / children's museums have this kind of setup somewhere, and more often than not, I've seen a Kinect hanging out somewhere doing the topographic mapping.
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