DIY and Entry-Level 3D-Scanner Forum

My question is: is it possible to trace a short history of this technique? In particular, when did it all started? Was Kinnect 360 the first? Or was it carmine? I started to develop interest in the last few weeks, but I saw that this forum started some months ago... It looks so fresh and new... so eager to explore, still, so eager to understand what happend precisely.
By the way, I would like to thank Bernhard for this extremely important effort, founding this forum.

Thank you for this kind post

I love your idea. We could put together the history in this thread and publish an abstract of our research.

This is a look back from Cnet: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20035039-75.html

The hardware was intended to be closed source, but Adafruit started a bounty to hack the drivers and make the hardware accessible to everyone

Héctor Martín won the price!

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/10 ... o-the-eff/

... What about OpenNI?

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For the sensors themselves:

Primesense (2005) is the company behind the current sensors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeSense ... Technology
They sell it as carmine, and license it to asus (xtion) and microsoft (kinect).

However the kinect 2 is using a different technology (time of flight, also used for LIDAR) and microsoft apparently developped the hardware and software themselves this time.

This is a nice overview of all the techniques, primesense tech is a type of 'structured light' scanner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_scanner#Technology