Kinect + DSLR = 3D filming

The Kinect game controller, as you know, works on the basis of an infrared projector with monochrome CMOS material - it is quite suitable for the role of a 3D scanner for drawing up three-dimensional models. If you connect Kinect to a digital camera, and process the shooting result in a special program, you can create very unusual cinematic effects. This is what the open source RGBD Toolkit software package is for ( a github project ).

At the Eyeo Digital Art Festival, a week ago, the presentation of the Clouds documentary on programmers and the beauty of code took place. This will be the first movie made with the RGBD Toolkit video editor.

The heroes of the film - programmers - tell how they feel when creating new programs, designing systems, and optimizing the DBMS. These are feelings of omnipotence, creativity and freedom. A bunch of Kinect + DSLR gives a certain surreal effect, as if the characters in the film do not belong to the physical world, but are a kind of embodiment of pure mind. Probably, this effect was sought by the authors (see video).