8 Great Kinect Hacks

Kinect hacking is taking off at blinding speed. Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller for XBox 360 is less than a month old, and it’s been barely two weeks since Adafruit announced a winner in their Open Kinect competition. Since the, Microsoft has tacitly endorsed opening up the Kinect as a platform, and it seems like there’s a new Kinect hack every couple of hours. It can be tough to keep up with a phenomenon that’s gone from nothing to a full blown scene in less than a month, so as a service to you we’re rounding up GeekTech’s favorite Kinect hacks.

Interactive Puppet Prototype

I can’t tell if I should be more impressed with the implications for children’s games or with the fact that this whole project only took a day to put together.

Black and White

Black and White from flight404 on Vimeo.

This is a short video to be sure, but also extremely evocative. Hold on a sec, I’m just imagining the digital ghost video game this leads to.

Real time Lightsaber

Finally, we’ve created a new ideal platform for Star Wars games.

Kinect Controls Windows 7

Using Kinect as a gesture control interface for Windows 7 means we’re another step closer to the Minority Report future. See our original story on this hack.

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

From flight404 who’s also responsible for the Black and White video. He’s doing a ton of interesting work with putting Kinect Data through all kinds of cool filters. I’d really suggest checking out his whole vimeo channel.

ROS + Kinect

In case using your Kinect to control your computer wasn’t impressive enough, how about using your Kiect to control your robot?

Reflection

This cool little hack uses the Kinect to let you play back, and fight with, your own Shadow.

For more Kinect hacks you can check out KinectHacks.net or just stick around here on GeekTech; Kinect hacks look like they’re here to stay.

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