The Microsoft XBox 360 Kinect is something we’ve been excited about for a while; its motion-sensing technology has the ability to completely change how we play video games. The device has a 3-axis accelerometer, a controllable motor and four mics to play with, and its outputs include a 640×480 color video stream and a 320×240 depth stream.
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Believe it or not, Microsoft’s Kinect must be a great piece of technological wonder; because non other than Google (Google Engineer Matt Cutts, actually) wants to get it hacked and offering a cash prize for the best open-source and Linux-based projects built on Microsoft’s Kinect. Cutts is offering $2,000 in prizes to the people who can come up with the coolest hacks for the Kinect.
A $1,000 prize will be given to the developer or developers who create the best open-source program or demo using the Kinect. A second $1,000 prize will be awarded to the dev or devs who make it simplest to write Kinect programs on Linux! Cutts notes that devs can use the Kinect without an Xbox attached.
And it looks like the contest has a deserving contender already! YouTube user okreylos has managed to get inside a Microsoft Kinect and extract the bits that allow him to create 3D video captures of what the device “sees.” The camera obviously cannot see all the way around the various physical objects in the room, but when okreylos starts spinning the image on its axis, things get pretty cool! Fun starts about 40 seconds in…
3D Video Capture Using Kinect [Video]
Measuring Virtual Objects Using Kinect [Video]
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Never heard of this technology.
Thanks for the info. I can’t hack it due to lack of knowledge
Well, its the Microsoft’s latest groundbreaking technology that is making Google and Apple feel jealous about it! Need more intro?
Matt Cutts must certainly be a huge Kinect fan, but well yes Kinect is certainly a wonderful piece of invention. I mean 10 years back, we could not really imagine that motion sensing technology would develop so fast
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In Matts’ own words: “Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners–basically any neat or unusual sensing device… If I were still in grad school, I’d be incredibly excited–there’s now a $150 off-the-shelf device that provides depth plus stereo and a lot more.”! So yes, he sounds like a big fan of motion sensing technology
With that kind of money he could have asked google india to sponsor a make your own programmable stereo camera in India.
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LOL true. But I’m sure with this cash prize offer he is gonna get a far more number of interesting Kinect hack projects! Don’t you think?
This technology is well below me, I grow fluff