[ale] Official open source driver for Kinect

[Greg Clifton]

>From one old fart to another, Amen! Preach it, brother!
GC

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> You _are_ an old fart.  Better video games than TV I say.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had seen that the xbox was a loss leader for M$. I have also seen that
> > they make it up in fees to the developers of games for the xbox.
> >
> > I have a WII already. An xbox (regardless of the politics) would
> encourage
> > additional gaming purchases and further expand the time my son spends
> glued
> > to the couch.
> >
> > Maybe I'm just becoming an old fart, but if someone wants to add more
> > realism to their daily experiences, they should try turning off the
> > TV/computer/ipod/etc and get outside in the big blue room more often.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:24 AM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2010/12/15, at 11:37 , Jim Kinney wrote:
> >>
> >> > Can this gizmo be used without an Xbox? (i'mnotbuyingoneforanyreason)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Short answer:  Yes.
> >> The Kinect is a separate interface device, just like WII remotes,
> >> which have also been extensively hacked and re-purposed.
> >>
> >> As to (i'mnotbuyingoneforanyreason), it is my understanding that
> >> the Kinect, like the Xbox itself, is a loss leader device and that
> >> Mafia$oft looses money on every purchase.  I think they are
> >> conceding to the open source drivers because the djin is out
> >> of the bottle now and they can't do anything about that except
> >> try to steer the hacker development focus back to their platform.
> >>
> >> peace
> >> aaron
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Watson, Keith <
> krwatson at cc.gatech.edu
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > Official open source driver for Kinect
> >> >
> >> >
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Official-open-source-driver-for-Kinect-1152601.html
> >> >
> >> > http://preview.tinyurl.com/3an9gyt
> >> >
> >> > keith
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> >
> >> > Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> >> > Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
> >> > keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> >> > (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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