Kinect Hacks: Turn Invisible, Make an Instant Light Saber, & More

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By Jennifer Welsh
Dec 3, 2010 1:10 AMNov 19, 2019 9:27 PM

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The next generation of video game control is upon us with the release of Microsoft's Kinect--which allows users to control special XBOX 360 games with their entire body. Hackers have been eagerly digging into the device, especially since Microsoft's Shannon Loftis told Science Friday's Ira Flatow that no hackers would get in trouble for finding alternate uses for the Kinect:

"I'm very excited to see that people are so inspired that it was less than a week after the Kinect came out before they had started creating and thinking about what they could do."

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