By John Walker on January 5th, 2011 at 3:24 pm.
Yeah, sure, Kinect hacks are this month’s Minecraft creations, but get over it. Because this one’s about turning into a superhero. And FIRING LASER BEAMS OUT OF YOUR EYES. Attention got.
I briefly mentioned yesterday, Microsoft has stated that it has no intentions of releasing a Kinect for the PC, but the tech types behind the device are working with ASUS on something extremely similar. The WAVI Xtion will be properly revealed this Summer.
Spotted by Joystiq, this is my favourite so far. You can see the video below.
He throws his hat and it boomerangs back to his head!
No… words… They should have sent… a… poet.
05/01/2011 at 15:33 MartinNr5 says:
Let me be (one of) the first to state that “the WAVI Xtion” is a really horrible name.
05/01/2011 at 15:39 AndrewC says:
Just call it ‘Wavey’. Adverts can involve waving.
05/01/2011 at 15:48 stahlwerk says:
Wavy Christian?
05/01/2011 at 16:31 Xercies says:
@stahlwark
You shouldn’t talk about John like that
05/01/2011 at 16:38 John Walker says:
/waves
05/01/2011 at 16:41 stahlwerk says:
Release him! (properly, this summer)
05/01/2011 at 15:41 Mike says:
What a finish. Wonderful.
Still hard to see how this would work its way into a game, but every hack is a joy to watch. So good.
05/01/2011 at 15:49 MartinNr5 says:
I just love that fact that they are “hacking” this thing, there’s bound to pop up something really amazing and useful sooner or later.
05/01/2011 at 15:41 Wolfox says:
That is awesome. In a very sad kind of way, but still awesome!
05/01/2011 at 15:55 Chalee says:
‘It is beautiful to look at the beam from the front’
Snort.
05/01/2011 at 15:57 Teddy Leach says:
They’ll make a real superhero simulator. Just you wait and see. It’ll create holograms of baddies for you to beat up and everything.
05/01/2011 at 16:09 Tei says:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magicbeing drunk.This is awesome. Also, Imagine this:
– put your childrens in the front of the TV.
– take two puppets
– make so what you do with the puppets shows on the TV, edited in real time by kinect to look awesome
– do some puppet story for your childrens.
05/01/2011 at 16:30 Tom OBedlam says:
This is the best thing I’m going to read this week.
05/01/2011 at 16:37 stahlwerk says:
Augmented Reality puppeteering? Tei, you’re wonderful.
05/01/2011 at 16:15 Soon says:
I think we all know this is leading to interactive porn and cyber sex.
05/01/2011 at 16:29 Big Murray says:
Someone’s already making one, sorry to say. Don’t have the link though … or the knowledge if I’d be allowed to post such a thing.
05/01/2011 at 17:03 Soon says:
So there is. But it doesn’t do much with the potential though, it’s still basically using your hand as the game cursor, which is pretty tame when it has the potential to replicate the entire you into the scene instead.
05/01/2011 at 16:38 itsmonktastic says:
The effects used in this really remind me of that show, Knightmare. I’m now considering how this could be used to create a home version of that show O_O
05/01/2011 at 16:41 Tom OBedlam says:
I would like invest in your idea. I currently only have some buttons and a piece of green string, you can have this for a ten percent share.
05/01/2011 at 16:55 Soon says:
Ooh, nasty!
05/01/2011 at 20:03 Dominic White says:
For anyone unfortunate enough to have not grown up watching Knightmare, check out this video:
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2008/08/17/knightmare-review/
It’s from an American perspective (booo, hisss!) but Spoony is quite able to sum up why it was so great.
06/01/2011 at 08:57 Tom OBedlam says:
That was an ace review. see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfAKM0Wj_PA
05/01/2011 at 23:58 MadTinkerer says:
“Microsoft has stated that it has no intentions of releasing a Kinect for the PC”
Seems a little late for that. Kind of like having no intention of releasing MAME on the PC.
06/01/2011 at 00:18 outoffeelinsobad says:
All we need now is way to control Minecraft using Kinect.
06/01/2011 at 07:17 Dao Jones says:
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/29/kinect-hacks-playing-minecraft-with-kinect/