[ros-users] Primesense cameras no longer available?

Ryan Gariepy rgariepy at clearpathrobotics.com
Wed Jan 22 02:42:47 UTC 2014


Clearpath has one and has been experimenting; it is much better than the
Kinect 1.0. Unfortunately, the terms of the alpha agreement means we're not
able to share detailed technical specs or datasets yet.

-Ryan


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:47 PM, James Ronald <james.ronald at gmail.com>wrote:

> Supposedly the new and much improved Kinect Version 2 which uses a
> different technology make Prime Sense obsolete.  I can't believe that we
> have not heard more about the new sensor.
>
> Here's a blip from Microsoft from early last year:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kinectforwindows/archive/2013/05/23/the-new-generation-kinect-for-windows-sensor-is-coming-next-year.aspx
>
>
> Anyone know the scoop?
>
> - Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Arkapravo Bhaumik <
> arkapravobhaumik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I had seen this coming, neither ASUS nor Prime Sense ever made a big
>> publicity of their product which was much better than MS Kinect. On the
>> contrary LEAP, that is also a motion controller/sensor though of a
>> different design/make etc and cannot be a replacement for ASUS or Prime
>> Sense, they did make lot of publicity of their product.
>>
>> Even then, I would be surprised if ASUS Xtion went off the stores as ASUS
>> has a gaming console [1] based on the Xtion !
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/asus-enters-video-game-console-war-with-wavi-xtion/25093
>>
>> On 22 January 2014 06:44, Chris Jones <chris.jones at overthrowrobotics.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Primesense has shrunk their website down to just a single page and taken
>>> down all information on their sensors. I just sent them a message through a
>>> form on their site. Has anyone heard, are they no longer selling cameras? I
>>> need the Carmine 1.09 for my boxing robot that I hope to bring to market in
>>> the next few months.
>>>
>>> Asus Xtion Pro Live (Carmine 1.08 clone) is on the Asus website but
>>> they've pulled it from their store.
>>>
>>> If they are no longer available that's going to be a huge blow to
>>> robotics projects everywhere.
>>>
>>
>> --
>> *Arkapravo Bhaumik*
>>
>>
>> http://mobotica.blogspot.in/p/head.html
>>
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