Well it makes sense, in a loose sense you could consider what has been done as hacking, but it seems Microsoft had a different stance on what they deemed hackin

Well it makes sense, in a loose sense you could consider what has been done as hacking, but it seems Microsoft had a different stance on what they deemed hacking. That being hacking the algorithms and code that make Kinect function on the Xbox itself, since the Kinect hardware just sends all the raw data to the Xbox. Anyone that wants to use the hardware has to do a lot of the work that Microsoft has already done in making sense of the data, but that is a lot of the challenge that people seem to enjoy. I noticed not a lot of people aren't using the microphones. I believe that would give a lot of additional functionality when used for sonic mapping.