PC World's David Daw pegs his top eight Kinect hacks from Lightsabers to Windows 7 hijacking. Did your homebrew make his list?
SAN FRANCISCO (11/29/2010) - Kinect hacking is taking off at blinding speed. Microsoft'sKinect motion controller for XBox 360is less than a month old, and it's been barely two weeks since Adafruit announced a winner in theirOpen Kinect competition. Since the, Microsoft hastacitly endorsed opening up the Kinect as a platform, and it seems like there's a new Kinect hack every couple of hours. It can be tough to keep up with a phenomenon that's gone from nothing to a full blown scene in less than a month, so as a service to you we're rounding up GeekTech's favorite Kinect hacks.
I can't tell if I should be more impressed with the implications for children's games or with the fact that this whole project only took a day to put together.
Black and White from flight404 on Vimeo.
This is a short video to be sure, but also extremely evocative. Hold on a sec, I'm just imagining the digital ghost video game this leads to.
Finally, we've created a new ideal platform for Star Wars games.
Using Kinect as a gesture control interface for Windows 7 means we're another step closer to the Minority Report future. Seeour original storyon this hack.
From flight404 who's also responsible for the Black and White video. He's doing a ton of interesting work with putting Kinect Data through all kinds of cool filters. I'd really suggest checking outhis whole vimeo channel.
In case using your Kinect to control your computer wasn't impressive enough, how about using your Kiect to control your robot?
This cool little hack uses the Kinect to let you play back, and fight with, your own shadow.
For more Kinect hacks you can check outKinectHacks.netor just stick around here onGeekTech; Kinect hacks look like they're here to stay.
This story originally appeared onPC World's website.
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