Post by hitman on Mar 12, 2014 21:42:15 GMT -5
I'm not surprised at all by this - a friend of mine works in a research lab at one of the universities here in Manchester, UK and they routinely use hacked Kinect sensors for scientific purposes.
I think Kinect is a very faddy idea for gaming, but Microsoft's incredible economy of scale means that every Kinect device (both 360 and Xbox One version) is an extremely sophisticated imaging tool. Their department switched to using Kinect sensors when they realised they are every bit as good as scientific devices costing 2 or 3 times as much. They have even better sensors for more specialist purposes though, of course.
Pretty cool! Hopefully someone will work out a way to make fun games with it too.
I think Kinect is a very faddy idea for gaming, but Microsoft's incredible economy of scale means that every Kinect device (both 360 and Xbox One version) is an extremely sophisticated imaging tool. Their department switched to using Kinect sensors when they realised they are every bit as good as scientific devices costing 2 or 3 times as much. They have even better sensors for more specialist purposes though, of course.
Pretty cool! Hopefully someone will work out a way to make fun games with it too.
lol
