PrimeSense are the folks behind Kinect's motion sensing technology. They've just releleased open-source drivers for the peripheral, reports Develop.
The team had planned on releasing these drivers at a later date, but they decided to put the rush on them in light of the successes of Kinect hacking community OpenKinect. This gives access to the sensors in Kinect as well as provides an API for writing apps.
Here's the question: Is Microsoft going to be cool with all of this? Somehow I doubt it.
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4:40 PM on 12.10.2010
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I read about a month ago that MS acquired Canesta, makers of 3D motion sensing tech accurate to within mm's.
It appears that MS is serious about their motion sensing tech.
[i]Flatow: So you have no problem at Microsoft with people using the open-source drivers, then?
Loftis: As an experience creator, I'm very excited to see that people are so inspired, that it was less than a week after the Kinect came out before they had started creating and thinking about what they could do.
Flatow: So no one's gonna get in trouble.
Kipman: Nope, absolutely not.
Flatow: You heard it right from the mouth of Microsoft![/i]
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/229370.asp
the sooner we get over this kinect/move bs the sooner we can get back to real games
I think this has Microsoft's blessing. ;)
Also, dat monitor.
I tip my hat to MS ad PrimeSense on this one.
Microsoft is making a sale off of the hackers just as much as the casual kiddies. And just as other people have said, whatever cool things the hackers accomplish, Microsoft can apply to their future software. Some companies pay teams to brainstorm new ideas and possibilities for their product, but Microsoft is getting it for free by encouraging this.