I've been trying to think of a way to incorporate it into the ARC. I'm open to suggestions. I am not entirely sure what benefit it has yet. I think it's "neat", but not sure what its application is yet.

For the ez-SDK users, they will probably jump on it. Because they can code against both SDK's. ARC is another story hmm

DJ it is being used for floor and room mapping, compared to SLAM but it costs $150 compared to $5000 - $25,000. instead of using sonic sensors to see a left wall, then turn to see right wall, then turn to see left wall, etc. it will do that once, then see all of the walls at once and remember it. then you can send the data to your computer to reconstruct a 3d virtual environment of the building. i think it would be a more expensive way of obstacle avoidance, but possibly a more exact and farther range.

i also want to do augmented reality, and not sure if kinect can help with that or not.

The Kinect is being going to released as a PC peripheral by Microsoft with some hardware changes which will help developers

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On the same subject this is a very cool demo of object regocnition with the Kinect

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There is a Kinect community here