Kinect Hacked to Work With PS3
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I would think being able to sell your hardware to the competitors customers which was previously a customer base blocked off to you would be a good thing.
Creative revenue streams and all that.
Creative revenue streams and all that.
Except it has no packages installed.... it's runs through the PC and unto the PS3, without the use of any installed homebrew.Baresark said:
The PS3 in not modded in any way whatsoever. (If I read the mod instructions and the several commentators on other sites correctly)
So yeah, Geo can go suck it!
So yeah, this needs a PC as the intermediate and the PC digests the Kinect data (using the homebrew sdks), his code turns the motion data into gestures, and then turns that into controller movements/button presses for the PS3 via the bluetooth sdks.
It's cool just to do it, and it doesn't need jailbreak. But it also means you're unlikely to do anything awesome with it, because you have to take some game that is already designed for the SIXAXIS and map motions crudely onto those controls. I can't think of many (any, really, don't want to say none - Okami? Whoops, PS2. Flower?) where emulating a controller with gestures is going to be superior to using a real controller. You need games that are written for the Kinect from the ground up - that goes for some awful Kinect games too. Plus you always need a PC near your game system. - which is not quite but almost as bad as the Move dev kit requiring a PS3 to work on a PC.
So again, it's great that he can even do it, but I don't see much in the way of game-changing here, either figuratively or literally. Perhaps he can get it to do something about those loading times?
It's cool just to do it, and it doesn't need jailbreak. But it also means you're unlikely to do anything awesome with it, because you have to take some game that is already designed for the SIXAXIS and map motions crudely onto those controls. I can't think of many (any, really, don't want to say none - Okami? Whoops, PS2. Flower?) where emulating a controller with gestures is going to be superior to using a real controller. You need games that are written for the Kinect from the ground up - that goes for some awful Kinect games too. Plus you always need a PC near your game system. - which is not quite but almost as bad as the Move dev kit requiring a PS3 to work on a PC.
So again, it's great that he can even do it, but I don't see much in the way of game-changing here, either figuratively or literally. Perhaps he can get it to do something about those loading times?
Why would microsoft care too much if people buy a kinect for their PS3?
They're still getting the sale for a Kinect off someone who doesn't own an Xbox360.
I'd say that's a pretty good deal being able to sell in a new market that they would not have considered being able to sell in!
They're still getting the sale for a Kinect off someone who doesn't own an Xbox360.
I'd say that's a pretty good deal being able to sell in a new market that they would not have considered being able to sell in!
Couldnt they claim it is stopping sales of the playstation move by allowing a competing periferal onto the market for their console?Baresark said:
And also claim he has broken the EULA by playing with his playstation in ways that they didnt say were ok?
It's about as appalling as a PS/2 device working in Linux.
Which is to say the least, not very.
Nor surprising.
At least to anyone familiar with software driver architecture.
Which is to say the least, not very.
Nor surprising.
At least to anyone familiar with software driver architecture.
It's alive! ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
Nicely done on the kinect hack.
*begins waiting for the inevitable sony freak out and lawsuit*
Nicely done on the kinect hack.
*begins waiting for the inevitable sony freak out and lawsuit*
