Microsoft Kinect Hacked? Already?! [Video]

Adafruit’s $2,000 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 normal boilerplate last week in an email to CNET:

” Microsoft doesn’t condone the modification of its products,” a corporation spokesperson told CNET. ” With Kinect, Microsoft inbuilt numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to cut back the probabilities of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these kinds of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.”

Yeah. If the subsequent video is legit it looks as though those safety features and safeguards had been pretty busted:

Whether this video is real or not is still seen. If it can be, Adafruit commenter ” Dan” notes that the motor is among the easiest section of Kinect to regulate.

For now, we’ve been directed to regulate things over at the NUI Group forums. [ NUI Group Forums via Adafruit ]

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