I recently posted about Adafriut's $3000 bounty for an open source kinect driver to compete with Microsoft's new addition to Xbox360, Kinect. It really is something new, fresh and cool. From this point forward the evolution of gaming will sprout out of controllers and into a free movement. Even for someone who is not the biggest gamer in the world; or even someone who doesn't understand the internal complications of the make up, I still think Kinect is too cool for school.
New info has surfaced about the possible open source version of kinect. The newer and maybe cheaper version is so originally named "Kinectman2". If you follow the link to the article you can view the demonstrations on youtube. Some are calling this hacking but Microsoft has not said a peep about hacking. I don't think they want their name associated with the negative connotation of the word "hacking." Either way, Kinect and or Kinectman2 is a break through, I can not wait to see where it goes from here.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/kinect-open-source-drivers-coming-on-nicely/10275
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