Bag drops at Singapore airport use Xbox Kinect sensors.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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The Kinect Sensor is used in many scenarios. It did flop for the Xbox but was way ahead of it’s time.
We had projects at Uni where we utilize the Kinect sensor.
People learned that this device was ahead of its time and under utilized. I personally like the topography sensor it’s used for, look up augmented reality sandbox, it’s the same sensor just better programming attached.
My CT scan when I broke my leg had an Xbox logo on some of the machine’s components
The Kinect sensor was and still is an amazing piece of technology for its price. I believe even the US military used it in certain cases because of how good it is at scanning items.
The xbox kinect was such a failure that it’s been widely used everywhere for everything, except what it was originally intended for. Amazing.
Quite a lot of stuff developed for government are using it. On our national service fitness test for Push up and Sit Up counter are using it too
PrimeSense, the company that licensed the Kinect’s technology to Microsoft, was bought by Apple in 2013. Their main application of the tech was FaceID, which is essentially a miniaturized Kinect. So technically the Kinect lives on in millions of iPhones.
Huh. Well, this is interesting.
The ghost adventures crew uses one of these kinect devices for mapping out ghouls also.
I used to work for a company that built physical and mental rehab equipment specifically geared toward elderly people. We used Kinect cameras on one device that had games for rehabilitation that included math, physical, and other types of physical and mental engagement.
Keep in mind, Singapore’s airport is the No 1 airport in the world
Kinect is a pretty high tech gadget wasted on gaming when no good games for it existed
That’s the funny thing, the Kinect has always been really great at a lot of things. As long as it wasn’t being used for playing games. Of all the shit it can do, motion based video games are the worst option
It’s literally the best sensor of it’s type at it’s price range and with open source literally anyone can play around with it with interesting uses
This sensor is used within so many tech projects, I remember making a xbox kinect face recognition system in my first bachelor year
It could only see like 5 meters far but still cool how many things u could do with it
i had a ct scan done after a car crash, and the machine had one too 🙂
Widely available, cheap to produce and have a defined interface -> nice to integrate for the product.
I think there was something similar with console controllers used by the US navy as there where easy to use and replace.
I wonder if we will see more of such “recycling” of technology with the amount of appliances that comes and goes that contains useful parts. Interesting
Well SOMEONE has to use them.
Decent sensors for a decent price, the home brew scene was pretty impressive!
Maybe OceanGate wasn’t so crazy after all.
Didn’t labs use a bunch of PS3s back in the day for some stuff? I remember reading about that. It always kind of confused me though since I thought that thing was hard to develop for.
They said Xbox wasn’t popular in Asia.
I was at place that made shoe soles for people with flat feet. They used the Kinect for scanning the feet
We should thank Bill Gates for many things, especially for inventing Windows.
Thank you Bill Gates. Without Windows, we wouldn’t be able to see through buildings. ðŸ¤
I have two of them one I use to unlock my computer as it surprisingly supports windows hello and the other one as backup as it is getting difficult to get them.
They are really great webcam for the price. Got them for like 30€. A webcam with that quality would go for 150€+ easily.
Suprised no one mentioned touch designer, kinect can be used for realtime visuals with interactions, can do it now without it using ml and mediapipe too but there are way more tuts for kinect and prob more use cases since it can grab your environment and stuff
Kinect is absolutely amazing tech.
Dreams, a bed retailer in the UK uses them in-store to suggest suitable mattress firmness
Remember when we were building supercomputers by taping a bunch of PS3’s together.
You’d be surprised how often stuff originally meant for gaming is actually really useful and weirdly way ahead of its time. Obviously you have the kinect sensor, the PS3 was basically a damn super computer (And the Navy did build one out of PS3s) whilst simultaneously being the cheapest Blu-Ray player at launch. The PS2 was also the cheapest DVD player at its launch, the Pokemon Soul Silver and Heart Gold games included a pedometer that was pretty much the best one available at the time, and iir the N64 actually had a heartrate monitor attachment release in Japan, that not only was it better than other heartrate monitors that were even used in hospitals, it was cheaper and smaller.
They’re surprisingly common as they’re a decent package for a low enough cost. Dreams a local bed company use it on their sleepmatch machine
Hardware for gaming is often sold on lower cost then the hardware is worth. I know from cases when PS3 was used for calculation in universities, bc they wherr cheaper thrn buying the same hardware for a normal desktop pc.
Same tech is used for Face Id in Iphones.
Wait until you find out the USAF used almost 1800 PS3s to build a supercomputer in 2010
Interestingly enough the Kinect sensor is still the best and cheapest way to get a 3d scanner like that
(Though I have to say it’s weird that a billion dollar industry is using cheap scanners lol)
In a way it’s a shame that Apple bought the technology, the faceid sensor is the continuation of this technology, it’s incredible but only available in an iphone
They had to sell them to someone.
You know what other forward focusing, engineering Titans used Xbox components that imploded under…pressure?
Bruh when you go to the airport n go to bag check at the desk n mom says we have bag check at home this is bag check at home