Wonderful information, thank you all. Saves days of research!

"Depth Camera" is a new and intriguing term for me. Diving in deep in that promising direction. Looks like IntelRealSense is a packaged product that allows us to get this done fairly easily with a proven SDK available in a variety of languages. 

Cary

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 7:31 AM Py Fave <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

check a bit around z mattes , its often better quality

kinect or similar (better) cameras , can provide you with the threshold depth you want.

if you prefer difference matte, it depends often too much on lighting, transparency, color.

Le dim. 15 déc. 2019 à 09:22, J Bills <AE-List@media-motion.tv> a écrit :

I've not done it but looked into it before.  Memory is a little foggy, but if it serves, there was an old After Effects plugin that could do live difference keying, I think.  Conduit.  Not sure if it still exists or is developed.

Other than Unity, you might also look into max/msp for this.   (I think that's what I'd decided I was going to do at the time)

OBS might be one to check also - I don't think there's any sort of diff matte in there now, but it might be possible to add it in as a shader (lots of that code out there in the googleverse)

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Or openFrameworks using C++ (compile in Xcode or Visual Studio)

https://openframeworks.cc/ofBook/chapters/image_processing_computer_vision.html

Not sure what kind of camera you will be using but this is where depth cameras can really shine.

Cheers,

Rachel

On Dec 14, 2019, at 11:00 PM, Phil Spitler <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Unity will do that or you could use OpenCV in Processing.

Personally I would use Processing.

https://processing.org/

https://github.com/atduskgreg/opencv-processing

https://opencv.org/

Cheers

Phil

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On Dec 14, 2019, at 8:26 AM, Cary Spenser <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

This may be a long shot for this group

I need to build a box that pulls a difference matte continuously. 

We'll setup a camera in a rock solid position. Have complete control of the background. Need to replace it behind talent in near real time for an installation.

C, C++, Python, almost any language will work.

Thanks!

Cary