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Using Kinect With Your PS3
baxpace writes "A tutorial posted on Shantanugoel tech blog indicates how you can use your Microsoft Kinect sensor with a PS3. As the posts suggest, the software is at a pre-alpha quality state, meaning that some libraries need to be improved in order to boost performance and features, but it's a start nonetheless."
Won't Sony sue him for adding functionality to the PS3 that didn't ship with it? Isn't the rule that they can only remove functionality after their precious little console ships?
Couldn't resist.
Cease and desist in. 3....2....1
For the curious, the PS3 does not need to be able to run unsigned code.
The methodology is fairly simple. As far as I can tell, the Kinect sensor is connected to a PC running Windows, then software on the PC interprets movements captured by the sensor and translates them into controller movements, which are sent to the PS3 using diyps3controller, which emulates a PS3 controller using Bluetooth.
Pretty bloody clever but the lag must be awful.
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
I was already crying when Heavy Rain forced me to purchase a Sony product. Now you want me to 'improve' it by sticking on Microsoft peripherals?
I already have enough self-loathing, thank you very much.
Goddammit. Wrong story.
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Goddammit. Wrong story.
Yes, wrong story but right sentiment.
Not to burst your bubble, but in my 12 years of using Verizon they had the best network coverage by far but the worst customer service possible. AT&T is measurably better, but when you're starting at 'oh so shitty' you don't have to do much to be better. I never would have moved to AT&T if Verizon let me have my 'free upgrade' 10 days early (my phone was damaged and they said I'd have to wait the 10 days or pay for a new phone in full).
It's not YOUR PS3. It's Sony's PS3. If it was yours, you could run whatever code you wanted on it.
I just don't understand all the hype around the Kinect. I guess it's cool from a strictly technological point of view, and I understand the novelty of it for casual gaming, but I can't imagine a scenario in which a serious gamer would want to use it. Then again, I hate the Wii and yet it is doing the best of the current consoles.
If you find this post offensive, don't read it! THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING! I am what I am because of how apes behave.
They will threaten the author with lawsuit and confiscate all his work after he caves in, then flip it as a new feature wholly developed and owned by Sony.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Sony should have put a little more money into R & D. Maybe then they would have introduced something creative instead of just reimplementing the Wii controller with their 'innovative' glowing ball on the end.
really very good
I'm sure Microsoft loves this idea!
Pylons?
Now for Sony to sue the guy for creating it and Sony suing Slashdot for linking it since we recently learned on slashdot in the past few days that even linking is illegal. and finally ending with a Judge's order to turn over the ip of everyone that clicked the link in the article... fuck sony http://sites.google.com/site/eclement/ps3jailbreak
My excitement over the PS3 Move controller was quickly subdued when I discovered I can't play the sports and gladiator games using online multiplayer, only local multiplayer. Now the controllers are sitting and collecting dust.
Given that complex games work online I can't see why Move games are any different. From an end-user perspective, it's really lame.
That's why they say the software is pre-Alpha. In the final product you won't have errors like this.
Whenever in an argument, remember this.
I have nothing to worry about. I boycott Sony so I would never own a PS3.
The Kinect, however, is the first reason I've seen to want something new from Microsoft in a long time. But they always did manage to make better hardware than software.
Wake me up when it actually is running on a PS3.... this is just a Kinect connected to a PC and running emulation software to turn the movements into PS3 sixaxis controller commands.. Nothing really fancy... It's just like using JoyCur for getting joystickcommands to be turned into keyboard commands..
I guess Sony soon needs to put a "You are not allowed to have fun using this product" to their general terms and conditions... And a number to call to get sued if you accidentally have fun...