Awesome Kinect Hacks

The first properly impressive use of Microsoft’s new peripheral comes from Oliver Kreylos, as he shows off Kinect being used as a 3-D video capture tool. Thanks to the Kinect’s depth-sensing camera, which bounces thousands of infrared dots off objects in your room to detect how far away they are (much like sonar or echolocation, but with light), Kreylos can use that depth data to make a crude 3-D reconstruction of his room.