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Using Kinect With Your PS3

Posted by timothy on from the y'-kin-kinnect-t'-dat dept.

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."

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  1. Nice by SpooForBrains · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:But, But ... by davester666 · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it means Sony will have to charge everybody to enable this new 'feature'...

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  3. having their cake and eat it too by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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