00:00Hi, I'm Scott Evans, and I'm with my colleague here, Kareem, to show you the next generation of Kareem.
00:05Kareem, would you mind joining me in front of the sensor?
00:08There you go, we've got Kareem here, and you're seeing him in all his 3D glory.
00:13The Kareem sensor has 3D vision capability, about three times the fidelity of 3D vision than we had in the
00:18first generation sensor.
00:19You can see a lot of details here, you can see Kareem's individual fingers, you can see the wrinkles in
00:24his shirt,
00:24you can even see his facial features, and it's this high fidelity 3D vision that's really going to enable a
00:30whole new set of natural interaction scenarios.
00:33Now in addition to the increased fidelity, we also have a much larger field of view.
00:37Kareem is a pretty tall gentleman, he's standing only about a meter and a half away from the sensor right
00:42now,
00:43much closer than he was able to stand with the first generation Kinect.
00:45We also have a much wider field of view, this is a big sofa, and you can see the entire
00:49sofa is in the field of view of the Kinect sensor.
00:53Now in addition to its 3D capabilities, Kinect also has a 2D color camera, I'm going to turn that on
00:58now.
00:59Hi Kareem, now you're seeing Kareem in 2D color.
01:01We've made that color feed 1080p across that large field of view, great for Skype scenarios.
01:07But one of the challenges with color camera feeds is that they're very susceptible to changes in room lighting.
01:13So to show this, we're going to bring down the room lights, and you know, gamers will often play a
01:18game in a dimly lit room,
01:19you often want to watch a movie in the dark.
01:21You can see that we've just lost Kareem completely in the shadows here, this is not very useful anymore.
01:26So we've introduced a new technology we call Active IR, we're going to turn that on now.
01:30And there's Kareem in Active IR, we have the ability to see in the dark with the new Kinect sensor.
01:35And the Active IR technology also enables us to remove ambient room lighting.
01:39So Kareem's got a flashlight, he's going to bring out this flashlight, and we'll go back to color feed.
01:44And this flashlight simulating different variations in the room lighting.
01:48Maybe a lamp off to a side, being backlit, being front lit.
01:52And you can see how those variations really wreak havoc on the image, make it really difficult to see who's
01:57in the frame.
01:58When we turn on Active IR, we can see that all of that ambient room light is being removed.
02:03So the image is very consistent, perfect for identifying people by their faces.
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