Using the Kinect to model your world with ReconstructMe

Watching the Kinect make the previously impossible for mere mortals easy is one of the best things I like best about curating for the Gallery. Today's project is one such example... With the Kinect, the Kinect for Windows SDK and this free (for non-commercial purposes) download you can quickly and easily "model your world. How awesome is that!

ReconstructMe

Grab your camera and move around freely – ReconstructMe takes care of modeling your world.

ReconstructMe is an intuitive 3D reconstruction system offering unique features

• Robust 3D real-time reconstruction
• Accurate metric surface reconstruction
• Multiple 3D sensor support
• Cross-vendor 3D hardware support (AMD, NVIDIA and INTEL)
• Offline reconstruction from existing file streams
• Resuming reconstructions at any point in time
• Surface export to common 3D file formats such as .stl or .obj

ReconstructMe is free for non-commercial use and is being developed and maintained by enthusiastic software engineers at PROFACTOR GmbH.

The video below demonstrates how ReconstructMe successfully reconstructs an office-chair. The resulting 3D model is then fed into PROFACTOR’s 3D pose localization software to determine the location of the chair in space.

Project Information URL: http://reconstructme.net/

Project Download URL: http://reconstructme.net/downloads/

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• Blog: http://reconstructme.net/blog/