Kinect cracked, opensource driver available

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A multi-touch interface for a PC would be useful. Hopefully people with use it for this.
 
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People do this a lot - the wiimote hardware was hacked within days of release, the ps3 eye cam has windows and linux drivers and its no big thing to write tracking doftware for it so that move would work, but nobody bothers. It simply isn't worth the time and effort becuase on PC I doubt this technology will be used by any serious developer for a long time.
 
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what he just said, its been done before but we will never see proper software for it or games
 
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What we need is a Minority Report stylee gui from it. Then Hollywood can remake Jurassic Park and have some new random lass say "This is Kinect, I know this".
 
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It is all very pretty, but again technology that has been around for several years. I don't see it being in every home in the next five years hooked up to a PC though, do you?
 
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ford prefect said:
It is all very pretty, but again technology that has been around for several years. I don't see it being in every home in the next five years hooked up to a PC though, do you?
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The minimalist movement with the mouse is hard to surpass with motion control, I see it being useful for a small number of programs/games.
 
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ECA said:
The minimalist movement with the mouse is hard to surpass with motion control, I see it being useful for a small number of programs/games.
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you do? i can't think of a single one :/
 
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Oh I agree, this tech does have some interesting potential, mostly in corporate and media applications I should think, but it won't be widespread PC tech for many years.

I suspect even though this is here now, most people would prefer speech control that actually works properly to this for everyday use outside of gaming and for that to work I think you need to look at a hardware solution giving the software a dedicated processor and memory of its own, because the current attempts are huge resource hogs.

Speaking of gaming, the Wii has done well in sales as I am sure Kinect and Move will, but this motion control thing is still in infancy. I’m just not convinced games developers actually know what to do with it. It could just be me, but I find these games really quite boring after the first few minutes. The novelty factor soon wears off and then the limitations of the games design and perhaps the technology becomes very obvious.

Perhaps I am just too set in my ways :)
 
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the has shown there is huge market in this its just that the wii has over all shited tons of nintys software not coz they all were jazzed up with nifty controls and sound its because everything they did was simple.
 
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nath said:
I assume you guys know someone did this with a WiiMote like 3 years ago?

YouTube - Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

Check out his other vids, lots of very cool ideas he's come up with for the Wiimote.
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It is very nice but not close to what the Kinect does, for a starter there is no real depth perception and had no motor to track movement beyond the defined area. Kinect is pretty nice but it barely beyond concept stage at this point, Dance Central is something very nice they can do with it now but they are going to need better hardware next time around if they want developers to really engage and push this technology.
 
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he now works for ms and worked on kintic didnt he?
 
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Not as good as 2 girls 1 cup but impressive none the less.
 
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Full steam ahead for PC now. :D

PrimeSense, the company which developed the technology behind Microsoft's Kinect sensor, has released open-source drivers for the camera used in the device and founded an organisation dedicated to the promotion of Natural Interaction devices.

OpenNI, the organisation founded by PrimeSense, has released OpenNI Framework – an open source development kit which includes an API designed to program for the use of Natural Interaction devices.

Middleware included in the package allows users to develop software both for the camera used in Kinect and PrimeSense's own PDSK 5.0 unit, Next-Gen.biz reports.

Kinect was hacked into performing any number of interesting different tasks shortly after it was released, with a group of MIT alumni offering prize money for the first team to demonstrate a successful hack.

It's thought that the plethora of applications which various hacks have opened up for Kinect have accelerated the release of the open-source material, which PrimeSense had always said it would make available.
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no the idea came from the 80s flick starring tom hanks. think it was called BIG or some thing used to be aired in the 90s alot around this time of the year
 
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Yaka said:
no the idea came from the 80s flick starring tom hanks. think it was called BIG or some thing used to be aired in the 90s alot around this time of the year
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Quiet you.
 
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