In my opinion, the Kinect is near the end of it's life as a scanning tool, but if you have one - use it!
Kinect was an amazing leap forward in 3D scanning technology for the average user.
I think many of us expected Kinect-style technology to keep advancing exponentially over the last 5 years - but we're still waiting for cheap, good hi-res 3d scanning.
This is a good article that is up to date and covers the Kinect 2 and scanning:
http://3dscanexpert.com/structure-sensor-realsense-sr300-kinect-v2-3d-scanning/
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In my opinion, the Kinect is near the end of it's life as a scanning tool, but if you have one - use it! Kinect was an amazing leap forward in 3D scanning technology for the average user. I think many of us expected Kinect-style technology to keep advancing exponentially over the last 5 years - but we're still waiting for cheap, good hi-res 3d scanning. This is a good article that is up to date and covers the Kinect 2 and scanning: http://3dscanexpert.com/structure-sensor-realsense-sr300-kinect-v2-3d-scanning/