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 Post subject: Kinect + WoW
PostPosted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:09 am 
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Neat.

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 Post subject: Kinect + WoW
PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:16 am 
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What the over/under on time it takes Microsoft to release an update for win7 disabling kinect support?

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 Post subject: Re: Kinect + WoW
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Rorinthas wrote:
What the over/under on time it takes Microsoft to release an update for win7 disabling kinect support?

Why would they? They're selling Kinects either way. And, hell, copies of Windows or X-Boxes.

The last thing they should want to do is drive this to Linux.

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 Post subject: Kinect + WoW
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The same reason apple doesn't want you jailbreaking your iPhone.

To paraphrase Yoda "Control Control Control. You must learn its all about control"

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They won't disable it, they're excited about it. The fact that the Kinect can do other things is probably a huge attribute to its sales.

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Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them. Which hasn’t happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of cheating, which also has not happened. That’s what we call hacking, and that’s what we put a ton of work and effort in to make sure doesn’t actually occur.

What has happened is someone wrote a open source driver for PCs, which essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn’t protect by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.
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I was actually pretty impressed with the Kinect's fidelity. It seemed to be very good at distinguishing subtle motions and positions. I imagine you could probably get support for a great deal of the hot keys, even as many as there would be in WoW.

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Lenas wrote:
They won't disable it, they're excited about it. The fact that the Kinect can do other things is probably a huge attribute to its sales.

Alex Kipman wrote:
Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them. Which hasn’t happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of cheating, which also has not happened. That’s what we call hacking, and that’s what we put a ton of work and effort in to make sure doesn’t actually occur.

What has happened is someone wrote a open source driver for PCs, which essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn’t protect by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.


I think this still counts as hacked, as in it was "hacked together".
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