majithia23 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Kinect hacked to work on the PlayStation 3 By Emil Protalinski, Published: March 21, 2011, 10:58 AM EST Hacker Shantanu Goel has got his Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect accessory to work with the Sony PlayStation 3. He achieved the feat by connecting the Kinect to his laptop, which is running PrimeSense's Kinect drivers (as well as the OpenNI Libraries and the NITE Libraries). The movement is converted into raw tracking data and reconverted into PS3-compliant data via the DIYPS3Controller.The result is being able to use the Kinect to control your PS3 via your PC, albeit it's very shaky because the information is sent in the form of normal PS3 controller movements. The hack is still in a very early development phase, but it definitely shows that that the pairing is possible. Now, of course, kinect doesn't work with PS3 obviously but then if we can't break the rules, we can at least bend them a little towards our way," Goel said in a statement. "I've created a mashup that allows you to use kinect as an input controller for the PS3. Please note that this is pre-alpha quality software currently. I haven't updated to a lot of recent code for the below libraries and also haven't done most of the performance/feature improvements yet. The axis performance specially needs lot of tweaking and it works well only while sitting. Putting this out purely as a proof of concept."Here's his current to-do list:Full menu and game profilesSkeletal tracking for better game profilesSwitching back to menu profiles from game profilesEasier way to specify user custom profiles instead of changing code for the samePerformance improvement for game profilesWe're wondering if anyone has attempted to get the PlayStation Move to work on an Xbox 360, or if it's not even worth the effort. If you own a PS3, does this hack get you excited with the potential possibilities?Hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majithia23 Posted March 21, 2011 Author Share Posted March 21, 2011 wonder what MS would do now ..... and what about Sony !!! its still not done with one Geohotz and now this ....how many GeoHotz would Sony catch ? !! Loosers .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hottwire Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 As someone put in the comments for that video, not sure if it is legit or not ,but the code for Kinnect was released freely so the potential of the kinnect could be unlocked, so no lawsuit, and again both consoles get publicity either way here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuthut Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Watch out Shantanu, Sony is going to subpena all of your computer equipment, make you take all of your posts down and sue you for ungodly amounts of money because you are using your PS3 in a way Sony doesn't allow you to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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