Kinect driver

[Yannick]

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/10/we-have-a-winner-open-kinect-drivers-released-winner-will-use-3k-for-more-hacking-plus-an-additional-2k-goes-to-the-eff/


so how long before we can pet a tiger on our pandora :lol:

 

[second exodous]

Microsoft is really freaking out about this but I don't think many people will buy it to not use with an xbox. I don't think it will be used for games more than experiments, robots, stuff like that. Who is going to make a game for this on some other platform? If the games are popular enough maybe it can be used for emulation years from now but I'm thinking it will be a short lived fad anyway, who wants to flail around like a spasmatic 9 year old just to play a freaking game? The Wii was pushing it, but now I have to actually stand up and use my entire body? Why wouldn't your just join a gym and keep my entertainment and expertise separate. Or better yet go play a sport?


I just don't' see any incentive for anyone to make a game for this when there is xbox live that you can sell a game for this. People that use these drivers will be using them for things other than games. If you want to make a robot out of your Pandora I could see that though, that would be cool. In fact if you make it cheap enough I might make one when I get my Pandora, freaking Microsoft out.

 

[-Tj-]

Ha! Nice! I was wondering if someone was going to try and hack some drivers together for this. I was interested in buying one for some cheap mocap. Dunno why Microsoft would freak out about this... they'll sell more of them this way (just look at the Wii Remote).


I do wonder if this will work well at all on Pandora, though. From what I read, MS decided to offload some of the processing to the 360 to take some cost away from Kinect by removing the processor that was originally supposed to handle it.

 

[second exodous]

Dunno why Microsoft would freak out about this... they'll sell more of them this way (just look at the Wii Remote).

From what I'm reading they loose money on each unit they sell so if you don't have an xbox then they don't make that money back on royalties. Still, not many people that buy this and don't own a xbox won't use it for games anyway, markets outside of gaming for this are very samll.


In the end they won't loose money on this unless it is a flop in the first place, at which point it doesn't matter anyway.

 

[WizardStan]

Dunno why Microsoft would freak out about this... they'll sell more of them this way (just look at the Wii Remote).

Possibly because they are selling it below cost to convince people to buy it, making up the difference in sales on games and licensing.


edit: h34r:

 

[darfgarf]

robots, stuff like that

well if my housemate gets one, and i work out the maths for p-hexes movement, y'all get a working driver for the pandora, but tbh it's a little much to spend on a vission module, when the only bit needed is really the depth sensing camera (can be bought elsewhere for less)


but i'm sure we'll see a few kinect-powered robots, don't know what microsoft are freaking out over really, apart from someone using a glorified webcam on a pc, oooh! scary

 

[-Tj-]

@second.exodous & WizardStan:


Hmm... valid argument, didn't realize they were selling them below cost. Maybe they know more about how people think (or not, seeing as WP7 phone SD cards are practically embedded in the phones' hardware :lol: ), but I kinda think that letting it be hackable would move more units, thus allowing the device to gain popularity, thereby increasing sales and eventually lowering the cost overall, and perhaps even winning over some of those who wouldn't otherwise buy one, 360 or not (like me!). To be quite honest, I would never consider buying one unless it was hackable, and I own a 360. No doubt there are thousands upon thousands out there who feel the same way I do.

 

[Emnasut]

Last I read they don't sell it under price but make profit from the first one sold. At least that's what I find all over the internet, though only on german sites...

 

[levi]

It's certainly pricey enough to make that believable.

 

[Yannick]

The only game i could see myself playing with a system like this is some jedi lightsaber game.


(or some medieval war game)


I liked the wii version off the force unleashed but that wasn't *real* enough


let's see if they can make a decent game on the xbox.

 

[Prometheus]

Last I read they don't sell it under price but make profit from the first one sold. At least that's what I find all over the internet, though only on german sites...

So how are they paying for the ludicrous marketing costs (half a billion dollars in the US), the development costs, and the fact that in some regions they're giving away tons of expensive stuff just to try to shift them? I somehow doubt they're anywhere near making a profit yet, if they ever do. (Come to think of it, is the Xbox Division even in the black yet as a whole?)

 

[Yannick]

creative bookkeeping

 

[second exodous]

Last I read they don't sell it under price but make profit from the first one sold. At least that's what I find all over the internet, though only on german sites...

Is Germany one of those countries where it is illegal to sell at a loss? I was reading a discussion somewhere else and there are countries where this is so. It kinda makes sense, smaller companies can't sell at a loss where huge companies can easily do so. I suspect in those countries this is quite a bit more expensive.