Adafruit’s $US2,000 bounty for an open source Kinect driver hack was only offered up late last week and already someone has allegedly delivered, said Adafruit’s Phillip Torrone in an email to us just now. This was inevitable.
Microsoft, for its part, offered up the standard boilerplate last week in an email to CNET:
“Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products,” a company spokesperson told CNET. “With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.”
Yeah. If the following video is legit it looks as though those security features and safeguards have been pretty busted:
Whether this video is real or not remains to be seen. For now, we’ve been directed to keep an eye on things over at the NUI Group forums.
[NUI Group Forums via Adafruit]
Ewen
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 12:23 PMthe open source driver for this is already available on the net, and it works to detect most of the movement in the KINECT hardware, installation is a bit busted though