What are currently the best low-cost (< 1000 USD) depth sensors in terms of:range (at least 3 meters, the more the better)sizepower consumption (preferably USB powered)spatial resolution/accuracydepth resolution/accuracyrobustness (lighting conditions, amount of unknown pixels)After Primesense was sold to Apple, there hasn't been a single obvious choice for a robot depth sensor.To my knowledge, Kinect v2 is the most accurate, but it's quite big and requires an additional power supply and a terrible amount of extra cables and adapters:Furthermore, I could not find if libfreenect2 can be used in commercial products. Being Windows-only would be a huge turn-off.SoftKinetic DS-311 is perhaps the closest to what Primesense used to be, but maybe not as accurate.Here are some other low-cost cameras that I found, but they have a short range:pmd[vision] camboard nanoSoftKinetic DS-325and others with a long range but high cost:Panasonic D-Imagerpmd[vision] CamCube 3.0SwissRanger SR4500Odos Imaging Real.iZ-1KWhat upcoming sensors are there? I found Orbbec Persee, which is coming soon and claims to be the best in everything, but looking at the image is not very convincing:
New low-cost depth sensors for robotics
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