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As far as I know the Kinect has always been based on infrared light, and the depth-camera is infrared 100% of the time. And the regular imaging camera can also probably capture infrared, as most digital cameras can. Many webcams work in IR, you can even point a TV remote controller to it, you can often see it lighting up when you press a button.

I think what they have done was to include an infrared lamp somewhere, to illuminate the scene appropriately when the lights are out, and capture some imagery in the dark to complement the depth data…

I don’t have much experience with the Kinect, so I would love if someone could confirm all that for me. The reason I am saying all this is because the article says “infrared sensor that engages when the primary camera can’t see anything”. I think the camera can actually see IR all of the time, it’s only an infrared lamp that “engages” when then lights are out. Or is it not?

There are properly different IR filters so the image is not captured with the projected partern on it?…

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“The best low-light smartphone” means it has a huge xenon flash that will drain your battery after 5 shots? I hope that is not what they mean…

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