Posts tagged with ‘kinect’

Kinect Champion Jockey will make you look and feel like a total mouthbreathing moron

As if flailing your arms around isn’t enough abject humiliation to suffer while playing a video game, Kinect Champion Jockey asks you to squat and bounce in front of your TV like a constipated dog. Sounds like fun for the whole family.

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Kinect hack of the day: Using Kinect to control a robot cyborg zombie

According to DashHacks, the software part of this design uses a “modified OpenNI programming along with GlovePIE to send WiiMote commands to the cyborg such as jaw and torso movement along with MorphVOX to create the voice for the cybernetic monstrosity.” As pointed out in the video, this robotic zombie also has a “pause” feature, and a feature to loop movements like what would be done at an amusement park.

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Kinect hack turns a shopping cart into a faithful shopping companion

In what could be one of the more real-world useful Kinect hacks, Luis Carlos Inácio de Matos has unveiled the wi-GO robotic shopping cart. Using the visual sensing powers of the Kinect, a laptop, and a motorized platform, the wi-GO follows its owner like a faithful dog. Users can then use the built-in shopping basket to carry their items as they go through the store. De Matos intends the wi-GO to help people who, because of disability or any other reason, might have difficulty navigating a store with a shopping cart or carrying their purchases.

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Build your very own Kinect-powered Eye of Sauron

I’m pretty sure that’s how it was done in the book.

At PAX East, a Trekker dances his ass off to Bel Biv Devoe

Because that’s pretty much what the song “Poison” is good for. Dancing your ass off like you just don’t care.

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Garry’s Mod being controlled by a Kinect

So how long has this taken? Shouldn’t this have been one of the first things someone tried with a hacked Kinect before air guitar or Minecraft sculptures? 

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Dad accidentally punches the shit out of his little girl while playing Kinect

YOU GOT KNOCKED DAFUGGOUT! (Fast forward almost all the way to the end, around 1:15)

What do you get when you combine a Kinect sensor and Minecraft? Pure awesome!

Kinect hack of the day: Kinect gives you giant, jiggly boobies

Chalk up one more win for Kinect hackery, because if the good lord didn’t bless you with giant boobs, or even any boobs at all for that matter, you can now have giant virtual boobs that you can jiggle in front of your TV for hours. Just don’t let Japan know that someone invented this or it’s all over.

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Kinect keyboard emulator hack lets you play WoW while AFK

The Flexible Action and Articulated Toolkit, or FAAST, from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, that’s just what you can do. It’s basically a software layer over your Kinect, built over OpenNI, that recognizes a skeleton and enables about 20 different motions to be mapped to key presses. This means you can lean forward to walk, raise your right arm to perform an action etc. It’s a free download that you can find here.

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