Kinect Hack Turns Your Life Into Adam West's Batman

[John Funk]

Kinect Hack Turns Your Life Into Adam West's Batman

Holy visual sound effects, Batman!

There are many factors that conspired to make the 1960s Batman TV series as fondly-remembered as it is: There was the memorable fight scenes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgE-lrfZ3k].

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Whenever someone on the show threw a punch or a kick, the screen would light up in a colorful sound effect like one might find in a comic book: "Pow!" "Biff!" "Slam!" "Ouch!" Sadly, that sort of thing just can't happen in real life.

Or can it?

Students at Carnegie Mellon University have used Microsoft's Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 to turn normal fistfights into colorful Batmanesque brawls. Make contact with someone, and the screen displays the appropriate sound effect as necessary. Sure, it's hardly perfect, but every great idea needs a prototype.

This Kinect hack might not save your life [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108066-Kinect-Could-Someday-Save-Your-Life], but it will make you a bit more like Adam West. And don't we all want that?

(Via Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/#!5772854/bam-pow-kinect-can-turn-your-life-into-the-batman-tv-show])

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[The Hive Mind]

TV'S ADAM WEST??!!

*gasp*


Nowhere near the best Kinect hack though...

...and a surprising lack of Adam West :'(

 

[XT inc]

Once again, what has it done on my Xbox Lately. The amazing kinect with a thousand and one uses, none of which are for your 360 console.

 

[wammnebu]

0:09 does that girl have a beard?

 

[Reed Spacer]

Wow.

That was obnoxiously loud.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Who's Adam West?

This man sounds awesomely cheesy, and willing to make fun of himself. And probably voices a major character on some animated sitcom that I like.

 

[WanderingFool]

Wish the 360 was that versatile...

 

[Genixma]

I showed them...nobody messes with Adam We....

 

[RA92]

Wow. The Kinect is everything... except for a gaming peripheral

 

[Tulks]

A thought strikes me... So dreadful I scarcely dare give it utterance...

 

[Nerf Ninja]

Wish we could see a boxing match with this being used.

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

Hey replace these with numbers, have them tally and BAM! Instant fighting game. Of course, you'd basically just be fighting your friends but whatever.

 

[cynicalsaint1]

Now if someone who actually made 360 games could just figure out something cool to do with the Kinect

 

[TheGuy(wantstobe)]

But does it command me to *wank*?

 

[Beryl77]

I'm going to do something unbelievable, I'm going to make a hack that allows people to develop games for Kinect. You can all call me crazy but I don't care, I'm just going to do it.

 

[JoshGod]

Holy smokes batman they're on to us what do we do now.... We wait for the right time to move my good chum.

 

[MissPixxie]

But does it command me to *wank*?

Yes. Yes it does.

 

[TheGuy(wantstobe)]

But does it command me to *wank*?

Yes. Yes it does.

Reminds me of someone I know rather well then

 

[Duck_Man52]

sweet, if I have a Kinect I would want that hack So I can be all like batman with the pows and the slam-o