Kinect gets hacked to work on Linux - Inquirer (blog)

WITHIN THREE HOURS of release, a clever hacker has managed to reverse engineer the protocol used by Microsoft's Kinect and released an open source driver for the device.

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Kinect is Microsoft's answer to the motion controller present in Nintendo's Wii games console and does away with the need for players to hold a physical device. Using motion sense cameras, the Kinect tracks players' movements converting them to in-game controls. Until now the only device able to use the Kinect was the Xbox 360, but that looks set to change.

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Unlike the majority of products released by the Vole, Kinect really is pretty neat technology and as such a $2,000 bounty was put up for anyone that managed to reverse engineer the driver and open source the code allowing the device to be used in general purpose computers.

Kinect gets hacked to work on Linux - Inquirer (blog)