MS: Kinect “Has Not Been Hacked”
You are the controller!
Published: 8:30, 09/11/2010 by Dan Lee.
36Last week it emerged that a contest to separate Kinect from the Xbox 360 was taking place, with a prize purse of $2,000 to the winner. Several videos have since been put on the internet showing that someone had indeed managed to modify Kinect, and control the camera with a PC running Windows 7. Obviously this has made Microsoft a little bit touchy, and they have issued the following statement:
“Kinect for Xbox 360 has not been hacked–in any way–as the software and hardware that are part of Kinect for Xbox 360 have not been modified. What has happened is someone has created drivers that allow other devices to interface with the Kinect for Xbox 360. The creation of these drivers, and the use of Kinect for Xbox 360 with other devices, is unsupported. We strongly encourage customers to use Kinect for Xbox 360 with their Xbox 360 to get the best experience possible.
With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.”
So yeah, don’t mess!
Source: GameSpot
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09/11/2010 at 08:33
Member since: Jan 2010
What kind of hacking should I think of?
Creating custom 360 applications using the Kinect or something?
09/11/2010 at 08:42
Member since: Oct 2008
no, its about creating drivers to use kinect with a pc (and possibly other hardware)
09/11/2010 at 08:59
Member since: Aug 2008
So, is the full title of the product “Kinect for Xbox 360″, or were Microsoft just trying to make a point?
09/11/2010 at 10:51
Member since: May 2009
I was wondering that…infact it really annoyed me the way he kept saying that. all the ads seem to say it too…everyone can see its for 360 you dont have to shove it in our face. im not gonna go and try to buy one to put in my ps3 i promise.
09/11/2010 at 09:15
Member since: Forever
I’d quite like to be able to use my Kinect, were I to piss money away on one right now, on my PC. I can with my PSEye.
10/11/2010 at 11:45
Member since: Jan 2010
You can do the opposite too, I was using a PC webcam on my PS3 for video chat with family and overseas friends
09/11/2010 at 09:23
Member since: Apr 2010
Ahh.. If this was Sony, we would lose all PsMove support =]
09/11/2010 at 09:34
Member since: Apr 2010
Wow, I think that couldn’t have looked any more juvinile if Microsoft were to have released a statement saying ‘Kinect hasn’t been hacked, it hasn’t, it hasn’t, it hasn’t *stamps feet*. If there is eveidene online of it running on windows 7 it clearly has been… but hey at least they had the courtesy of making it run on another Microsoft based product, not on Mac or PS3 or something… PS Move… now with kinect support! Awesome!
09/11/2010 at 10:27
Member since: Apr 2010
lol I can’t get that image out of my head now!
09/11/2010 at 09:40
Member since: Dec 2008
I would genuinely like to use Kinect on a PC, flipping trough screens with a wave would be very intuitive.
Unlike jumping up and down in a laggy plastic boat.
09/11/2010 at 14:51
Member since: Mar 2010
Goodbye, goodbye, laggy boat
Everyday I look across the office floor There you were,
your hair down to your legs And your legs down to the floor laggy boat,
goodbye, goodbye
Now that you are goneI’ll never see you here for tech repair
Wish you knew how much I loved Your legs and your hair laggy boat,
goodbye, goodbye
laggy, laggy, laggy, laggy, laggy..ect.. :)
10/11/2010 at 07:51
Member since: Apr 2010
AhhhhFLIGHTOFTHECONCHORDSISTHEBESTSHOWEVER!!
09/11/2010 at 09:46
Member since: Jan 2009
It hasn’t been hack in the traditional sense (i.e. someone managed to run it on a PS3). They’ve just created a program that fools kinect into thinking it’s running on a 360, when in fact, it’s running on a windows 7 PC.
09/11/2010 at 10:01
Member since: Apr 2010
It’s odd that Microsoft, being a reasonably large PC software company, would encourage further Kinect sales for the PC as well by making it work out the box on Windows.
09/11/2010 at 10:01
Member since: Apr 2010
Wouldn’t, I mean!
09/11/2010 at 10:20
Member since: Apr 2009
Yeah, I would have assumed it would work on Windows as well. Don’t the normal 360 controllers work out of the box for PC?
09/11/2010 at 11:26
Member since: Apr 2009
yeah i can see them waiting a few months and announcing “kinect now for pc”
09/11/2010 at 14:54
Member since: Mar 2010
this man can see the future
09/11/2010 at 15:13
Member since: Oct 2008
No you need to Download a driver from Microsoft to use the 360 controllers. Also a new controller will have the windows 7 comparability logo on the packaging
09/11/2010 at 10:19
Member since: Apr 2009
I don’t really think there’s much else could be done here, other than create drivers to make Kinect work on other platforms.
I mean hack? Really?
It’s a controller, not a console!
09/11/2010 at 10:26
Member since: May 2010
once its reverse engineered it could be used in loads of ways not just to use as kinect on other devices, robotics for example. I