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- 1Kinect turns sixteen as a comet supplied its own special effects●kinect turns sixteen; the comet supplied its own special effects November 4: Kinect reaches its sixteenth anniversary, E
November 4 marks the sixteenth anniversary of Microsoft's Kinect, the motion-sensing accessory for the Xbox 360. The same date also saw NASA's EPOXI spacecraft fly past a highly active comet, and Nintendo is noted for having made playing cards long before it built video game consoles. Commenters are marking the Kinect milestone alongside these other November 4 anniversaries.
- 2Xbox Kinect finds new life outside of gaming▼The Xbox Kinect failed as a gaming accessory, but it's ridiculously useful without an Xbox
The Kinect, Microsoft's motion-sensing camera that failed to catch on as a gaming accessory for the Xbox, is proving surprisingly useful for other purposes once detached from the console. Tech writers point out that its depth-sensing camera and microphone array make it handy for projects like 3D scanning, home automation and research applications, giving the discontinued hardware a second life among hobbyists.
- 3Single-file app turns old Kinect into a 3D scanner●A single-file desktop app that turns a Kinect v1 (Xbox 360 / Kinect for # hardware # opensource # software # coding # de
A new open-source, single-file desktop application lets people repurpose an original Kinect v1 sensor from the Xbox 360 as a 3D scanner. The software revives hardware many users still have in drawers, and the project is being shared among maker and coding communities interested in cheap scanning tools and accessible, inclusive hardware hacking.