Kinect Hacked, Money Won
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Adafruit are optimists, you can't blame them for that.Tankichi said:
Cool story broNumachuka said:
What's really sad here is the realization of the technology that can be for so much more and what is it being implemented into? Kinect Sports.
Speaking as a gamer I would be the last to say the Kinect was a waste of time in itself, but the fact it isn't being used for anything else is a waste of time.
I applaud Adafruit Industries for willingness to push boundaries. Motion control has been realized and anybody can develop it on their own, but I think the point Adafruit was trying to make here was to slap Microsoft in the face for being so narrow minded when they could be expanding their customer base by porting the Kinect onto the PC.
I mentioned that being a good idea myself. Its uses would expand beyond just gaming to being used for other entertainment purposes as well as business.
Why the hell is Microsoft being so small minded these days?
Speaking as a gamer I would be the last to say the Kinect was a waste of time in itself, but the fact it isn't being used for anything else is a waste of time.
I applaud Adafruit Industries for willingness to push boundaries. Motion control has been realized and anybody can develop it on their own, but I think the point Adafruit was trying to make here was to slap Microsoft in the face for being so narrow minded when they could be expanding their customer base by porting the Kinect onto the PC.
I mentioned that being a good idea myself. Its uses would expand beyond just gaming to being used for other entertainment purposes as well as business.
Why the hell is Microsoft being so small minded these days?
Nicely done by AlexP, I'm sure this will be a lot more useful than Kinect for 360. I just have more confidence in the general PC programmer community than Microsoft.
Microsoft has really handled this wrong. They have a great new hardware that's easily cracked and want people to use it for crap like kinect adventures... And then they ***** about it when people actually want to make the Kinect useful.
Microsoft has really handled this wrong. They have a great new hardware that's easily cracked and want people to use it for crap like kinect adventures... And then they ***** about it when people actually want to make the Kinect useful.
This is funny in how trivial it was.
Then again, none of this stuff is as difficult as it used to be.
Wii controller? - Variant bluetooth/HID device. Getting it connected to a PC is trivial, but the data it returns doesn't comply with generic standards, a bit of experimenting was nessesary to get it usable.
Playstation 3 and Xbox controllers both seem to be USB and/or bluetooth. (Xbox controller doesn't even count as a hack, since official windows drivers were always available.)
The Playstation eye? - USB webcam, but it required writing new drivers. That's no different to any other webcam really.
Playstation move - I haven't seen hacks for it yet, but it seems the same old usb/bluetooth thing again.
Kinect - Any guesses here? Probably a USB device, and as a result, it's little wonder it was hacked so quickly.
I mean, I remember getting an N64 controller working with a PC...
That required a custom driver AND a specialised bit of electronics that converted the high speed custom serial signal to a standard PC parallel port...
And seriously, what's microsoft going to do exactly?
Pretty much every gaming device ever has had this kind of hacking done to it, and nobody ever seems to care.
Is microsoft really so desperate that they'd want to be the first major exception?
Look at the video. Look at the output the kinect hardware is producing...
An RGB video feed, and a depth map...
Seriously? That's worth being total assholes about?
All the impressive stuff is down to the image recognition software, not the hardware itself.
Then again, none of this stuff is as difficult as it used to be.
Wii controller? - Variant bluetooth/HID device. Getting it connected to a PC is trivial, but the data it returns doesn't comply with generic standards, a bit of experimenting was nessesary to get it usable.
Playstation 3 and Xbox controllers both seem to be USB and/or bluetooth. (Xbox controller doesn't even count as a hack, since official windows drivers were always available.)
The Playstation eye? - USB webcam, but it required writing new drivers. That's no different to any other webcam really.
Playstation move - I haven't seen hacks for it yet, but it seems the same old usb/bluetooth thing again.
Kinect - Any guesses here? Probably a USB device, and as a result, it's little wonder it was hacked so quickly.
I mean, I remember getting an N64 controller working with a PC...
That required a custom driver AND a specialised bit of electronics that converted the high speed custom serial signal to a standard PC parallel port...
And seriously, what's microsoft going to do exactly?
Pretty much every gaming device ever has had this kind of hacking done to it, and nobody ever seems to care.
Is microsoft really so desperate that they'd want to be the first major exception?
Look at the video. Look at the output the kinect hardware is producing...
An RGB video feed, and a depth map...
Seriously? That's worth being total assholes about?
All the impressive stuff is down to the image recognition software, not the hardware itself.
If I can play video games with only my mind thanks to this thing being modded/hacked, then I'll be impressed. Needs more explanations and experiments to unlock the real potential, until then I'll be waiting. Using my inferior thumbs for now.