Hackers release open source drivers without Xbox can also use Kinect

Just as Microsoft officially launched the Xbox 360 somatosensory peripheral Kinect, an American company called Adafruit Industries started an activity that called on individuals or teams to develop open source Kinect drivers so that Kinect can be applied to Xbox 360. The platform. To this end, Adafruit offered a $3,000 reward.

On Monday, the third day of Kinect's listing, Adafruit announced that someone had successfully implemented the cracking of Kinect and provided them with open source driver code. Today, Adafruit disclosed complete information on the official blog. At the same time, he said that in addition to providing $3,000 in prize money to the winners of this time, they will also donate $2,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The winner was named Hector, and in an email to Adafruit, he said: “This is my Kinect driver I uploaded, supports depth and RGB images, and can display them in an OpenGL window. Although it is still very primitive , but it has proved our concept."

Adafruit verified the driver uploaded by Hector and it turned out that it was indeed available.

Hector implemented the cracking of Kinect on a Linux laptop. Although he does not have an Xbox, he uses his own developed driver. Hector can also use Kinect to perform related operations on his laptop. Hector decided to invest this bonus in hacking teams with whom he had a good relationship, such as the iPhone cracking team and the Wii hacker team Team Twiizers.

The Kinect sensor uses RGB cameras, depth sensors and multi-array voice microphones to capture the player's 3D motion, facial recognition and speech recognition. Kinect can track up to six players at the same time, but only two players can play one game at the same time.