For the Kinect to work you need a surface where the infrared spot pattern is imaged. For most of the things we look at the Kinect will be sufficient.
However one captures a lot more information with the light field camera. For example transparent things like smoke, fog, glass and things with weird optical properties like polished steel or the Tiger eye mineral with Chatoyance will be captured by this camera.
This gives the photographer tremendously more artistic space. Just imagine photographing a close up of an eye with the Kinect technology.
One can argue that the light field camera will maintain a quality in the image one could never achieve with Kinect based systems (without a lot of photoshopping).
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For the Kinect to work you need a surface where the infrared spot pattern is imaged. For most of the things we look at the Kinect will be sufficient.
However one captures a lot more information with the light field camera. For example transparent things like smoke, fog, glass and things with weird optical properties like polished steel or the Tiger eye mineral with Chatoyance will be captured by this camera.
This gives the photographer tremendously more artistic space. Just imagine photographing a close up of an eye with the Kinect technology.
One can argue that the light field camera will maintain a quality in the image one could never achieve with Kinect based systems (without a lot of photoshopping).