Hacker News Reader

I think Intel has been trying to do this for a while with their realsense technology and accompanying cameras.

http://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/architecture-and-techn...

Mapillary has also been moving quickly in this space, not for objects per se, but entire environments.

Not really. I know some folks on the RS team and they don't really develop around applications, they are more focused on miniaturizing and making RS more available and lower power.

That said, some people have tried to use RS for this problem, but from what I've seen end up just using Kinects.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com