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Strong Contender Already For Adafruit's Kinect Challenge

Posted by Soulskill on from the wave-your-hands-in-the-air dept.

sammyF70 writes "Adafruit's bounty on open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect may have been already won. Someone called 'KinectMan2' has posted videos of Kinect's output as seen on Windows 7 to YouTube. That was fast. Hopefully Linux drivers are coming soon." A few more details are available on a forum post the man made. Adafruit said the bounty could be his if he posts the source code, and they also upped the reward to $3,000 in response to another silly statement from Microsoft.

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  1. But will he opensource the driver ? by Yvanhoe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is an article on engadget that says the guy doesn't necessarily want to publish his driver :
    http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/07/kinect-does-hackers-bidding-but-not-for-fortune-or-fame-video/
    Maybe that's why the bounty was raised.

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  2. Re:Streisand effect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    MS also wants third party developers to develop for Kinect... it helps if they can convince third party developers that lots of Kinect sales implies lots of Kinects hooked up to XBoxes.