Two weeks ago I visited the Autodesk San Francisco office and had the pleasure of working with the Project Photofly Photo Booth in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco. This is the same exhibit shown at the recent TED 2011 conference, but now even more cool.
This custom setup generates a 3D textured model of your head using 16 synchronized DSLR cameras mounted around you that take a photo all at once when your face is detected in the right alignment location as recognized by a re-purposed Microsoft Kinect camera. The photos are then sent to the Project Photofly on the cloud to convert to a 3D textured mesh and when completed it then emails the .ipm file for viewing in Autodesk’s free Inventor Publisher Mobile for iOS devices.
Here I am in in the new Project Photofly Photo Booth in the Autodesk Gallery.
Here you can se the LED screen that lets you know visually when you head is in the right location and uses a Microsoft Kinect camera to check the location of your head and provide feedback where to move your head and to hold still.
Here is my head modeled in 3D as a result using the free Project Photofly software from http://www.autodesk.com/photofly. 
Here is a quick video captured by Autodesk Labs VP Brian Mathews from my iPhone showing me testing the Photo Booth. http://bit.ly/igZBeu
If you get to San Francisco you should definitely stop in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market. The Autodesk Gallery at One Market is open to the public every Wednesday from 12-5 p.m., with a guided tour at 12:30 p.m.
Cheers,
Shaan
It’s possible to have a 3D model in real-time with real-time remote manipulation in 3D with Kinect? °_°
Simone82,
In this specific case we only used Kinect to check the person head alignment of the spatial location to make sure we got the best head model. While we have been experimenting with Kinect for many potential uses we have not implemented it for manipulating models with Photofly using a Kinect.
Regards,
Shaan
We have taken the photobooth to events, but there is one open to the public free each week if you visit the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco.
http://usa.autodesk.com/gallery/
Cheers
Shaan
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TITLE: Project Photofly is now 123D Catch
BLOG NAME: Between the Lines
Project Photofly has now graduated as an Autodesk product and is now named 123D Catch. This is what Autodesk Labs is for in that we place a early technology to get feedback and support whether there is enough demand and promise to make it an Autodesk p…
Wow, nice to hear that there are now Photobooth machine that make your photo looks 3D and I want to see one their example in actual.