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This is an exciting achievement and I'm very impressed that it was carried out so rapidly. Good hacking indeed! Although, I have two questions which HN may be
by shogunmike 16y ago
This is an exciting achievement and I'm very impressed that it was carried out so rapidly. Good hacking indeed!
Although, I have two questions which HN may be able to answer for me:
1) What are the benefits of the Kinect over building a servo-driven IR bar with audio yourself out of cheap commodity hardware? Is the price far less when all components are integrated? Is the construction just that much simpler?
2) Presumably now that the "easier" task of reverse engineering the comms protocol has been achieved, the next step is to understand/replicate/replace the "proprietary" algorithms in use by Microsoft that run in the XBox in order to have some meaningful interaction with the device. Is it possible to use some FOSS such as OpenCV with Kinect? I know it's early days and many of you probably haven't had time to look at the protocol yet, but I am curious.