Xbox Kinect Hacked to work on PCs

What a find. That's definitely interesting.

I acutally checked out a couple of his videos. He's talking about using a mirror in the background to project a fully 360 degree 3D image, which is a cool thought. And like you said, that software he's using to make the kinect work with computer is up and available.. FOR FREE.

I love the interest being generated with this little project, thanks Microsoft!

It's kinda weird - the technology of the hardware of this system has existed for some time. Microsoft decided to implement the technology into gaming systems - a novel idea I suppose. They write the code for the Xbox 360 - and now suddenly everyone is deciding to write their own code? It's funny when the motivating factor for individuals to try to advance technology is the fact that they're jealous Xbox 360 owners have it but they can't have it on their PC.

:Edit: Perhaps jealous isn't the best choice word, but I think it gets the idea across.

Because I don't technically have to produce anything that is completely original, and because I've been wanting to fiddle with the Kinect as a PnP device since it came out, my Master's dissertation is a project using the MS Kinect as an input device for a gesture-based interface for a Windows machine.

Now I can't really post my work online until I've finished it completely (the plagiarism systems would pick up my posts and flag my final report as plagiarised, despite the fact that everything is written by the same person), but if people are interested in the project, I'll happily post explanations of what I'm doing, as well as brief descriptions of the various algorithms I've researched for hand detection, hand tracking, and gesture recognition, and how they work.

I may even get the chance to post videos of my work in action.

That..... would be so cool. I'd love to understand how that works.


Also, couldn't you just prove that you're Lenny on Zelaron and say you posted it?