Kinect through night vision – the video

You might well have heard the Kinect looks kinda cool through night vision. I’ve stumbled across this HD video showing just what happens.

I’m not an expert but it does seem to me as if the Kinect bathes the room with dots and then detects the motion through them. I’ve seen some demos from Rare which showed the Kinect’s cameras clearly being able to make out a face – they can see when your lips are moving and that’s one of the techniques the system uses to determine when you’re talking.

Anyway; the video:

What do you think? Will we have a rush of newspaper stories about how a sea of infrared laser light has caused all sorts of damages to households?