This is a nice new project. Sharam Izadi et al. employ the Kinect to reconstruct arbitrary surroundings in 3D by using a Microsoft Kinect depth camera.

After 6:40 minutes, the video gets especially interesting if you are into multi-touch interaction. With Kinectfusion, any surface can be used for interactive multi-touch input.

See full paper in HTML version. (Actually there should be a PDF version of this paper, but the link is 404)

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