Nov 19 2010

PS3 FanBoys, Look Away Now

Category: Videos — ChrisM @ 11:50 pm

My thanks to ChrisB for posting the following video up on Facebook. As I may have mentioned already on this site, I’m hoping to get a Kinect for Christmas. Partially for the intended use (playing games and interacting with some menus on the Xbox without using a controller), but also because I’m fascinated by the potential for other uses when the USB device is plugged into a Windows/Linux (or even a Mac I suppose!) box and drivers (already created) and applications and bodges (some already out in the wild, some currently in alpha stages) are used. Yes, the whole Minority Report-style waving your hands in the air to select and move objects around has a short term appeal to it, but just check what the guy does in the clip below. As mentioned within the comments section on the video’s native YouTube page, the possibilities of what can be done if you could use two or three Kinects around a room at the same time are very interesting.

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2 Responses to “PS3 FanBoys, Look Away Now”

  1. z says:
    November 20th, 2010 2:23 am

    whoa! I got a move and I have to say that while I’m impressed with it’s ability to track a lighted sphere, the camera quality blows! If I could control a computer with a kinect, i’d be all over that like white on rice!!

    • ChrisM says:
      November 22nd, 2010 12:38 am

      I’ve not looked into what people have managed to do with it yet on a PC, I want to try and wait until I actually have one myself, hopefully at Xmas 🙂
      I say hopefully, I’ve ordered it from Amazon, so unless they or the courier screw up, I’ll be playing with it once we’re back in Kazakhstan again. I’m thinking media control on the PC would be cool, apart from a few party tricks. Obviously you can use it to control media playback on the Xbox, but the quality is normally a little better for videos when done via the PC.