Kinect Structured Light
The Kinect works by projecting infrared dots and mapping the distortion to find out what is happening in the world
Audrey Penven a photographer has taken some stunning pictures with an infra-red camera of how this works
http://www.flickr.com/photos/audreypenven/5197391931/in/set-72157625454305998/
Just keep pretending to yourself that you really look that cool when you are playing on Kinect
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