2. What is Kinect?
“Controller-free gaming and entertainment experience”
Devoloped by Microsoft & PrimeSense (Go Israel)
10,000,000 Unites sold worldwide until today
5. Kinect goes Open Source
In the first month of the release, a company named Adafruit Industries
offered a bounty for an open-source driver for Kinect.
Microsoft in reaction stated that:
“it has built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the
chances of product tampering”
But the USB port was left open by design.
6 Days later a winner was annoucned for devloping a linux driver.
Later it was discovered that the idea for the contest & the funding was made by
a former Microsoft kinect developer, Johnny Lee.