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+depthcloudjs (DEPRECATED)
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+Depthcloud.js was Willow Garage's original package for streaming depth cloud data from the robot to the browser.
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+The technology has been migrated to [depthcloud encoder](https://github.com/RobotWebTools/depthcloud_encoder) and [ros3djs](https://github.com/RobotWebTools/ros3djs).