XBox marketing and Kinect data
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I'm not sure whether this has been brought up before, but I guess most of us would not be surprised: http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft-actually-wants-to-sell-kinect-data-update--263119.phtml
Surprised? Not really, George Orwell's 1984 was a set book for my
'junior high' exams back in the seventies. :-}
A box with television and communication capabilities attached to a camera controlled by proprietary software; it did remind me of 1984 at one point.
For anyone wondering what to do now with their Xbox and Kinect this is helpful for the Kinect
leny@trisquel:~$ apt-cache search kinect
freenect - library for accessing Kinect USB camera -- meta package
libfreenect-demos - library for accessing Kinect USB camera -- demonstrations
libfreenect-dev - library for accessing Kinect USB camera -- development files
libfreenect0.0 - library for accessing Kinect USB camera
mrpt-apps - Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit - Console and GUI applications
python-freenect - library for accessing Kinect USB camera -- Python bindings
And this page is useful for the Xbox itself
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/07/15/identifying-electronic-components/
As you'll know from the disks that come with magazines, the game disks themselves make great coasters.
Oh, man, most of those parts remind me of the N-in-One electronics kits I played with as a kid.
The Kinect itself can be hacked with on a GNU/Linux box? I have no idea how to get the plug to fit into a computer-hole!
"The Kinect itself can be hacked with on a GNU/Linux box? I have no
idea how to get the plug to fit into a computer-hole!"
At least some of them have a USB connector that will plug into a
GNU/Linux box even better[1] than the Xbox.
[1] I.e. in a freedom respecting mannner
Thinking back on it, mine might have had a standard USB connector. I had better take a look and find out.
At least my XBox 360 sports a standard USB port (or multiple standard USB ports to be specific). There should be no modification required for attaching the Kinect sensor to a standard PC. Only the old XBox had "special" connectors although everything was standard PC technology.
Here's an interesting commentary on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXWEuJ2Wfg