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Because then Sony and Nintendo could simply make their own hardware and use the drivers with it. The most interesting bits of Kinect aren't in the hardware... t
by sgk284 16y ago
Because then Sony and Nintendo could simply make their own hardware and use the drivers with it. The most interesting bits of Kinect aren't in the hardware... they're in the software, and Microsoft spent tens of millions of dollars and quite a few years developing it.
- daeken 16y agoThey don't need to open their analysis, they just need to open the interface for the device itself -- the work the community has already partially done. It'll happen eventually anyway (soon, most likely), so it has a minimal downside for them.
- trafficlight 16y agoThe OpenKinect project has achieved a lot in the last week. https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/ https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/ http://groups.google.com/group/openkinect http://groups.google.com/group/openkinect