Kinect Hacks
Monday Shorts – Kinect hack and hip hop, Mortal Kombat DLC, WoW fixes
It’s a bank holiday Monday morning, and the wind is whistling through the pre-E3 hush. Enjoy these sparse snippets of not-news until the US wakes up again.
Kinect Hacks headlines
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Kinect hacked to build 3D maps of reality
Kinect hacker extraordinaire Martin Szarski has built a homebrew analogue of Google Maps’ street view in full 3D, using a Kinect and a mobile phone. What did you do this weekend?
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Kinect hacks get all surgical and hadouken
Kinect hacks are all the range since the device was released, and today, two new ones have popped up online: one performing a virtual surgery, and the other mixed hadouken with a projector.
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Kinect hacked to control humanoid robots
It’s all very well to trade in your controller, keyboard and mouse, or even the need to actually play for Kinect’s hand waving approach, but the genuinely useful hacks are a bit thin on the ground.Until now. What could possibly have more real world application than a control system for (potentially) giant robots? I submit: […]
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Saturday shorts - Pinball FX 2 compo, Last Story, Kinect hacks, Monday Night Combat PC delay, more
Lots of relatively minor news stories related to videogames are combined to make a whole greater than the sum of its parts after the break.
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Latest Kinect hacks show Flash, Silverlight integration
Another day and more Kinect hacks. This time it’s all about Flash and Silverlight.