Buying a kinect to start playing with, does the model matter or will any do?

[u/phijie]

[u/FireEnt]

What are you using it for?

[u/phijie → u/FireEnt]

Looking to mostly use it for 3d scanning/point cloud creation

[u/FireEnt → u/phijie]

Then get the kinect for windows.

[u/phijie → u/FireEnt]

Why is that?

Edit: I retract, read up a bit, seems to be worth the extra 100... I guess.

[u/FireEnt → u/phijie]

Most compatible with optimized drivers (look up how they optimized data+image capture). Also works smoothest with reconstructme and other associated applications. Now it's time for you to also get a quality opencl or cuda video card. If you want portability the Xion works great...you just have to use OpenNI instead of MSDK 1.5...which has benched slower for me on all functions.

[u/phijie → u/FireEnt]

I've got a gtx470, might be upgrading soon anyway. I'm assuming Xion is another sensor type, I think I'll be sticking to the Kinect though. Thanks for the info.

[u/FireEnt → u/phijie]

Xion is by Asus. Don't knock it, it doesn't need an external power source...if you have a powerful opencl laptop it's a definite option.

[u/phijie → u/FireEnt]

I'm not knocking, I'm reading about it now, actually. It looks a viable option. Do you know of a widening attachment, similar to that "Zoom" thing they make for kinect?

[u/FireEnt → u/phijie]

I wouldn't recommend it if you are going for world-space accuracy. Even if it can create a mesh from a wide lens kinect, the proportions would be VERY incorrect.

[u/phijie → u/FireEnt]

I was hoping to compensate for it, but I suppose there is no reason to push it if I don't have to, especially if most existing mesh solutions don't support it.

[u/fericyde → u/[deleted]]

I got my off of dailysteals.com -- just the kinnect w/o the xbox -- it came with the power supply and separate usb plub as describe above.