Showing posts with label hack. Show all posts
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Kinect hack camouflage you in open environment.


One more interesting Kinect hacks by one of the Japanese coder , Takayuki Fukatsu.

Takayuki Fukatsu hacked the open Frameworks to give Kinect a mode where it tracks your movement and position rather than the full body mass.

Now fulfill your Hollywood Predator fantasy :P

Before annoyed, now excited by Kinect hacks

Earlier Microsoft said that i would work closely with law enforcement to keep the Kinect tamper-proof. But now it reversed it stance saying it is left open for tech nerds to go ahead with their creativity.

Microsoft told CNET on November 4 that it “does not condone the modification of its products.”

Kinect became target of many developer since many were excited because of its controller-free gaming and motion sensing and prize offered by open source community and in one case by one of the Google Engineer Matt Cutts.

Google engineer announces Cash prizes for Kool Kinect hack

One of the public noted Google engineer Matt Cutts, on his blog announced a cash prize for the best open-source and Linux-based projects built on Microsoft’s Kinect.

Kinect is an motion-sensing camera designed for Xbox 360.

Cutts thinks the Kinect is exciting, he writes, “Before I joined Google (Google), I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners–basically any neat or unusual sensing device… If I were still in grad school, I’d be incredibly excited–there’s now a $150 off-the-shelf device that provides depth plus stereo and a lot more.”