With a $500m marketing budget, and an ad featuring an insanely catchy yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah song, you can't fail to have noticed the launch of the XBox Kinect.
What you might not have heard about, however, is the guys and girls who have been on a non-stop mission to hack the Kinect - digital revolutionaries trying to liberate the technology, so we're free to use it on other platforms. Underneath the surface, Kinect is about more than gaming, after all. It's about computers being able to read three dimensional movement and respond accordingly - and that's an idea with the power to change the world.
Well, it's only been five days since launch and the hackers can already claim their first startling, if rough and ready, development: 3D video capture.
I can only imagine the fun we're going to have with this...
suggestive ad but I don't know is kinect really that good ? I mean I'm sure it has some good performances but I won't believe it till I actually see that it records the moves that precise.
Posted by: Michelle | November 26, 2010 at 08:45 AM
The first thing you should do is to give proper rest to the inflamed joint and keep it in elevated position as much as possible.
Posted by: gout treatments | January 11, 2011 at 04:14 PM
I think I still have a life - I actually did not switch on the console today - yippee! I am on the wagon - the Kinect takes the xbox forward but there is still some tweaking to do before we get the 'virtual reality' envisaged over 30 years ago.
Posted by: Rebecca Lane | October 30, 2011 at 03:12 AM