A brief Comparison Between Xbox360 Vision Cam Vs Philips SPC900NC Monday, 1 September, 2008
Posted by Taha in General, Hardware, Webcam.Tags: cam, Camera, Hardware, microsoft, philips, vision, vision cam, Webcam, xbox, xbox 360, xbox360
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On the surface at first the the xbox360 cam looks great and works well in an MT scenario, it by far has the best IR sensitive CCD chip on borad, and performs extremely well in MT scenarios when used at 320×240 resolution, you can easily achieve 50+ fps. However where the camera lacks is in its 640×480 resolution range it barely does 17fps, usually it satys between 11~15fps and with that the cpu usage also skyrockets. (more…)
To See or not to See… Wednesday, 28 May, 2008
Posted by Taha in Hardware, My Progress, Webcam.Tags: bandpass filter, cam, Camera, filter, IR filter, IR modification, Vision camera, Webcam, Xbox 360 vision camera, xbox360 vision
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For the past few weeks i’ve been doing my research into multitouch, and the various types of cameras used by people over at NUIGroup.com, as their IR sensors. I narrowed my choice to 2 the Phillips SPC900-NC and the Xbox360 Live Vision Camera. By seeing a few tests Daddyoli did and and the recommendation of the Xbox360 Vision Cam given to me by both Daddyoli and Fairlane. I went with the Xbox360 Live Vision Camera.
I purchased it for just over $13CAD from an excellent seller at ebay. For $13 the camera proved to be well worth the money. And the IR filter was easily removed. Below are the steps i performed to get the camera to work in an FTIR setup. (Basically its the removal of the IR Filter).
