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In the same was as the Wiimote and sensor bar lead to all sort of innovative new tech demos by hardware hacking communities, the release of the Kinect looks like it's going to do something similar, with some exciting possibilities for game devs.



Can you imagine combining this technology with a 3D TV? You could have a cheap solution to producing indie 3D movies, or use it for 3D webcam chatting.

Edit: Thinking about it, you may not be able to use it for real stereoscopic 3D, because unlike 3D cinematic cameras it only records visual data from one viewpoint, and uses two IR cameras for the depth. To get a 3D film then, you'd have to combine depth with visual data, and so you'd get that weird black drop out where it's missing the visual data.



Or the possibility of a cheap 'n' dirty motion capture solution for game developers.

There's more info in this bbc article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9210071.stm

What do you guys think?

I think i want to play with the programs ;D

Just have to convice family to part with it for a while

I think the funniest thing about this whole thing is that before drivers were hacked up Microsoft was threatening lawsuits to anyone who tried to hack the Kinect. Now that they're seeing this stuff they recently said, "We're excited about the innovation the indie community will bring" or something to that effect. Not saying that I wish they didn't change their views on it, but I still think it's funny.

I saw that shadow puppet demo yesterday, and that caused me to check the prices for the Kinect because I wanted to try it. Shame it's $200 though

i've kinetic! it's good, but needs a wide space to play.

and actually the mosts of the game are with puppets like WII avatars.

we must wait to play a "call of duty" with kinetic. for now it's aimed to family games.