Tag: depth sensing


  • How a Band of Hackers Freed the Kinect from the Xbox

    How a Band of Hackers Freed the Kinect from the Xbox

    Dreams of a Universal Sensor When Microsoft released the Kinect in 2010, it promised a leap forward in how we interacted with games. A depth-sensing camera, voice commands, and skeletal tracking combined into a single device that could read motions with surprising nuance. The catch? It was designed to live inside the Xbox ecosystem. The…