Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, 2010 @07:34AM from the always-at-war-with-eurasia dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it clear that they didn't condone it. Now Microsoft seems to have realized the potential of their device and has made a U-turn. Alex Kipman, Xbox Director of Incubation, now says that they left the Kinect open by design. Kipman said, 'What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn't protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.'"

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Re:Needs more Xbox by Quartz25 · 2010-11-20 07:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

It is the Xbox *360*, after all.

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Re:Oh yeah by marcello_dl · 2010-11-20 13:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

encryption adds latency. you know, the first enemy of videogames.
increases costs and time to market too.
they might have got no other choice.

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