some xbox kinect hacks you may have missed

You may have seen the 3D Video Capture with Kinect video, but on the release of the device there has been plenty of experimental efforts from open source drivers to capturing 3d content from the xbox Kinect.

One interesting hack is Memo Akten demonstrating an early prototype of using the xbox Kinect for gestural drawing in 3D, where one hand can draw, and two hands will rotate the object or scene. pretty impressive actually.

ofxKinect 3D draw 001 from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

“First tests of playing with Kinect on OSX. Thanks to libfreenect and ofxKinect for openFrameworks. One hand draws in 3D, two hands rotates the view. Very rough prototype. Lots of fun! source at github.com/?memo/?ofxKinect-demos. Using ofxKinect by Theo Watson, Dan Wilcox and co. github.com/?ofTheo/?ofxKinect. based on libfreenect – an open source Kinect driver git.marcansoft.com/??p=libfreenect.git

Copyright (C) 2010 Hector Martin “marcan”
This code is licensed to you under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or version 3;
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More info on the opensource kinect drivers at github.com/?OpenKinect/?openkinect”