Kinect Hacks

If there was a Kinect in every set top box in all the living rooms around the world, we'd never need to search for that damn remote again! You know, that germ infested coffee table accessory that you fumble with in the dark when trying to change a channel or control the...

Using OSC, Max/MSP and a Kinect, Roberto Pugliese has...

Some good folks were kind enough to upload a teaser video of their upcoming Virtual Gallery using the kinect.  The premise is pretty straight forward and seems to be well on its way.  Once a user is tracked, they can then use both hands to navigate...

One of the greatest advantages of using the Kinect SDK for your Kinect inspired project is that it has the ability to recognize voice commands. That's exactly what Corey Thomas took advantage of when building his very own Virtual Personal Assistant.

Here's something I haven't seen yet that I think the majority of you programmers out there might find pretty cool. Madhav Kidao developed a rig using two servo's that rotate a connected Kinect allowing it to potentially track someone in 360 degrees. Kinect, 360….like...

Interactive Hopscotch takes a classic schoolyard game for children and applies a modern day twist. The game uses a Kinect sensor and a custom application using openFrameworks and TUIO. TUIO is used to detect when the...

There something to be said about those the choose to use their programming know-how to increase the virtual size of one's boobies. That thing to be said by the way is "Bravo". This hack tracks a user, any user by the way, and adds a little extra something' something'...

Virtual Shadows is a visually stunning project created as a final project for MSc Design and Digital Media at the University of Edinburgh. The concept was taken from the traditional greek shadow theatre but has been spiced up with a high tech twist, the addition of the...