Here’s More Wild and Wonderful Kinect Hacks

The Kinect hacks continue, eclipsing Microsoft’s intended use for the device: gaming. Geeks the world over are busily coming up with a torrent of applications using the openKinect drivers. We already listed some of our favorites last week, but here’s a bunch more we just couldn’t resist showing you. The creative coder and hacker communities continue to push the limits of Kinect’s potential use as hardware for art installations, gesture-controlling robots, creating visuals reminiscent of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album art, and more.

Tracking On Arbitrary Planes With Kinect

Body Dysmorphic Disorder – runs in real-time DepthJS – surf the web like a Jedi, with hand gestures

ROS + Kinect – motion controlled robot

Reflection – Prototype – a guy fights his own shadow A Small Kinect Experiment – uses OpenSceneGraph, Cefix, and Libfreenect