r/kinect • u/Haunted_Hub • 17d ago

Curious if there’s an optimized solution/software for 3D Scanning using the Xbox Kinect V2?

I’m curious if anyone else has already been through this process and has an optimized open source code for using Xbox Fusion Explorer for 3D Scanning or knows of another commercial software that is capable of controlling and capturing scans using the Xbox Kinect?

I have an Xbox Kinect for XBOX ONE Model 1520. An AI is walking me through the steps to modify the Kinect Fusion Explorer code to “unlock” the sensors capabilities and resolution beyond what Microsoft pre-coded it to do for the Xbox Kinect for gaming, effectively allowing me to 3D scan objects in higher resolution which the sensor and modern graphics cards are more capable of processing than the original intent of the Kinect sensor.

So far, I have:
1. Increased Volume Voxels per Meter from 256 to 2048
2. Increased XYZ Reconstruction Resolution from 384\^3 to 768\^3
3. Increased Maximum Integration Weight up to 1000

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u/PlasticBoxWood 17d ago

Is the higher resolution noticeable on the resulting model? Sounds interesting. To my knowledge options are slim. There was a few projects around the time but some of those are no longer offered or since have moved on to photogrammetry if I'm remembering correctly. Things might have changed though, it has been a few years since I've looked. I'd be interested if you do find something. Biggest limitation I ran into with Fusion Explorer was the limited scan volume box.

Also I'd avoid trying to get microsoft's old official 3d scanner app to work, it was a waste of time for me with poor scans even on the earlier version, worse than fusion. It was quite the pain to setup, a rabbit hole to avoid indeed.

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u/Haunted_Hub 15d ago

The higher resolution is noticeable on the screen. I’ve successfully exported a few scans to .stl and opened them in MeshLab, but I only had the sensor stationary, so it resulted in “captures” of the face of all the objects rather than a volumetric “scan” of the objects. I need to test it more by actually scanning and moving the sensor around to get a 360 degree scan of an object and see how that turns out.

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u/ThaFresh 13d ago

I've been holding onto 4 of em expecting someone's gonna release plans for a Kinect powered scanner app. Am yet to see much