Wednesday, January 12, 2011

BLITZ hacks Xbox 360 Kinect for Flash/Silverlight/Unity/HTML

BLITZ, the interactive agency behind campaigns for HALO, Nike, Starbucks, DIRECTV, FX and so on, has today released the source code and scripts for hacking Microsoft’s Kinect hands-free motion controller to allow it to output data to platforms such as Flash, Silverlight, Unity or HTML.

A limitation of Kinect is that everything that has to be done with C++, a language that doesn’t lend itself well to creating rich user interfaces. A solution that Noah Gedrich and Yosef Flomin of BLITZ have come up with is to set up a socket server that C++ can connect to and send the output from the Kinect to a listener, such as a Flash application, Silverlight application, Unity, HTML or whatever.


NOTE: This is HUGE!~!

BLITZ hacks Xbox 360 Kinect for Flash/Silverlight/Unity/HTML | ZDNet

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