Kinect Hacked, Money Won

[Signa]

This article and discussion just made me realize that had MS announced they were developing a new motion capture device for Xbox AND PC codenamed Natal, I would have been about 10x more excited for it in these last few months. I couldn't care less about Kinect right now, and yet this article piques my interest.

 

[Lightslei]

Why the hell is Microsoft being so small minded these days?

How is MS being small minded?

When you develop something that can be sold for more use than in just games along with potential high profits and don't maximize your profits, you are small minded.

 

[VanityGirl]

Why the hell is Microsoft being so small minded these days?

How is MS being small minded?

When you develop something that can be sold for more use than in just games along with potential high profits and don't maximize your profits, you are small minded.

Er... but don't Sony and Nintendo do that with their motion controllers too?

 

[Lightslei]

Why the hell is Microsoft being so small minded these days?

How is MS being small minded?

When you develop something that can be sold for more use than in just games along with potential high profits and don't maximize your profits, you are small minded.

Er... but don't Sony and Nintendo do that with their motion controllers too?

Yep.


Which really makes me wonder what's up with the admins in all 3.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

When I got webcams for my friends from Gamestation for 49p each I was very popular.

Simply for knowing where to get the PC drivers for the PS2 Eyetoy. (sadly none for Win 7).

If you write a book, and get paid for that book, you don't get to complain when someone uses it to prop up a dodgy table leg.

Same deal for Kinect.

It's not like, as was said before, he's not messed with Nintendo's and Sony's gear too.

 

[VondeVon]

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[VondeVon]

Maybe Microsoft is pissy because they planned to do this already. A gesture-interface for their next OS seems logical, considering they've been making stuff like Microsoft Surface. And gesture-interfaces are a reasonably well-known concept from movies (like 'Gamer') so it seems likely they would have thought about it at some point.

I find it difficult to imagine that they built such "amazing hardware" only for use as a games peripheral. Perhaps us gamers are simply people who will pay them to test it.

Besides, Adafruit can't use Microsoft's technology in their own stuff without permission, right? Or if they purchase all Kinects at retail cost, are they allowed to use it?

(Sorry if this is a double post - seems to be some missing posts)

 

[SpaceMedarotterX]

Maybe Microsoft is pissy because they planned to do this already. A gesture-interface for their next OS seems logical, considering they've been making stuff like Microsoft Surface. And gesture-interfaces are a reasonably well-known concept from movies (like 'Gamer') so it seems likely they would have thought about it at some point.

I find it difficult to imagine that they built such "amazing hardware" only for use as a games peripheral. Perhaps us gamers are simply people who will pay them to test it.

Besides, Adafruit can't use Microsoft's technology in their own stuff without permission, right? Or if they purchase all Kinects at retail cost, are they allowed to use it?

(Sorry if this is a double post - seems to be some missing posts)

I'm pretty sure so long as they buy the kinects it's legal.

 

[Roxor]

Now, this is admittedly pretty clever. Use a dozen of these positioned on the midpoints of the edges of a cube and you could have a pretty effective 3D digitisation setup. While you could technically do it with a dozen webcams and some green-screen, the distance buffer of the Kinect output would probably make the model-making side of things simpler and less memory hungry.