Xbox Kinect hacked

[Blindman]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19762-inside-the-race-to-hack-the-kinect.html

Got to love hackers.. Im going to get one now so I can play with it on my PC. Check out the videos, real-time 3D capture, and gesture interfaces for your PC.

I would love to try a game idea, Hold a plastic gun to aim and shot, move my head to see around corners, lift my knees forward to walk forward and back to go back...

 

[domesticated om]

I read this article last week

http://singularityhub.com/2010/11/1...ct-to-see-the-world-obey-your-commands-video/



I wonder if it's possible to plug it into my PC and write stuff for it in XNA?

 

[domesticated om]

Oh wait.....just googled it. Current answer is "nope"

 

[Blindman]

For XNA it would require a device driver that can be interfaced with the input abstraction layer. Current Kinect interfaces emulate mouse and keyboard functions which are compatible with XNA. Also some of the hacks are compatible with direct capture. There, as I can work out, are two video streams from the kinect. One is a Zmapped video stream and the other a colour video stream. XNA provide video capture and with the lock interface it is easy to interpret both streams.

But I cant wait for the full interface. Just hope Microsoft provide a driver for window7.

 

[Chipz]

I highly doubt Microsoft is ever going to be releasing drivers, or at least for a LONG time. It stimulates purchase of the XBox, if it can be hacked to fit anything the profit margins drop big for Microsoft.

Don't expect Win7 drivers any time soon.

 

[Blindman]

Microsoft will have no choice but to create the drivers for Win7. There already is an open source driver available.
http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git;a=commit;h=7655fcf7239ba4907654089dba535a196685dbe5

For such a fantastic device they would not want to lose control of PC development for it.