Hacking around with a RealSense depth camera and Python (opens in new tab)

I almost couldn't watch the videos on this website because of their size, 50MB each! Just a simple `ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -crf 23 out.mp4` reduces the size by a factor of 10 without noticeable difference. If the blog author is reading this, please consider using video compression, not everybody has super fast internet.

The device seems to be similar to the original Kinect (unstructured light stereo), rather than the second generation (time of flight).

You can still buy the Kinect Xbox One sensor for $89. It's a good device, even though it never caught on for gaming.

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.