Kinect: Hacked

[RazedInBlack]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/11/12/kinect.hack/index.html?hpt=Sbin

In effect, Kinect could be used to change the way people interact with technology -- creating an alternative to the keyboard-and-mouse set-up that's so common today.

"It's actually surprisingly easy to interface with this device," a hacker says in a YouTube video that shows Kinect working with a Linux operating system. "I think it will be pretty damn good for a lot of projects -- especially robotics."

Microsoft, not surprisingly, isn't happy about the hack.

This sounds like a good hack!

 

[ToxicBunny]

Oh good, I didn't think CNN was a week behind everyone else.....

I'm very intrigued by this "hack"... and will be keeping my eye on the driver stack to see how it turns out.

 

[adrianx]

Very, very good programmers are often called hackers. People that do programming on the Linux kernel are called hackers (e.g.). I feel I had to mention that. The media likes to call script kiddies or people that work with crime syndicates - "hackers"...

Anyway, if you want to make computer hardware and you don't want anybody to reverse-engineer the software for it, then come up with something 100% unique. Don't use anything that already exists. Sorry, that's how I see it.

 

[noxibox]

Microsoft, not surprisingly, isn't happy about the hack.

A case of wanting to cut off their nose to spite their face? Is it because they don't like Linux or because they won't also make money off games for the hardware?

Anyway, if you want to make computer hardware and you don't want anybody to reverse-engineer the software for it, then come up with something 100% unique. Don't use anything that already exists. Sorry, that's how I see it.

Even if something completely unique were possible it wouldn't do any good. At the best you're just making it more challenging and therefore more exciting for the guys that get a kick out of reverse-engineering.