Complete Premium video at: fora.tv Google “rapid evaluator” Johnny Chung Lee demonstrates how independent developers around the globe are using Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect to create sophisticated full-body tracking video games. —– Innovation on the Edge: How Hackers Turned a Videogame Controller into a Breakthrough Device Johnny Chung Lee, Interface Technology Researcher, in conversation with Jason Tanz, Senior Editor, WIRED As a researcher in Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, Johnny Lee was a key contributor to the development of the Xbox Kinect, the company’s revolutionary controller-free gaming interface. Launched in November 2010, the Kinect sold 8 million units in its first 60 days, making it the fastest-selling consumer device of all time, according to Guinness World Records. When Lee joined Microsoft in 2008, he had just completed his PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he focused on technologies that enhance human-computer interaction. He gained widespread recognition from his demonstrations in YouTube videos and at the TED conference on ways of hacking together advanced interfaces — like interactive whiteboards and 3D displays — from off-the-shelf products. In 2008, MIT’s Technology Review added Lee to its prestigious “TR35″ list of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35. In early 2011, he joined Google as a “rapid evaluator.”
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misleading title
how is that hacking!?
Yes, its hacking. Just because he didnt use it in a malicious, damaging way towards Microsoft, doesnt mean its not hacking.
Why didn’t Microsoft just do this to begin with? They would’ve made so much money if they made a small charge on it, but now they get nothing.
zomg h4x
@DBrownofdc You don’t know what hacking means, do you?
I had this idea 10 years ago =[
If you use the Microsoft SDK it’s not hacking any more… It’s developing. It’s now an intended function. If you make money so will they.
neat
@SirFakeName you know exactly what i mean
WOW!! So cool!!
Open Source FTW!
@SirFakeName Either way this is *not* hacking.
@DBrownofd hacking actually means adding on to something. cracking means destroying it. because hacking sounds cooler hacking became the word used for both cracking and hacking i guess.
@MisterDyslexo actually this is how microsoft makes money. they give you a worse product, release it before competitors products then improve on it. the first 360s they released a year before ps3 had rrod. there new ones dont really.
who is without sin cast the first stone.
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@DBrownofdc
You’re misinformed like a huge portion of the world. The original Hackers where nerds that played with old phone circuitry to make toy trains and other things. Hacking itself isn’t the act of breaking into say the PSN or web servers. It’s just been unified with theft and the sorts whilst being given a bad stigma because of a couple bad eggs that are juvenile.
I’d like to see the word Hacker come back in a blaze of glory without everyone going. “OMG hacker *clutches credit card*”….
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That’s interesting as a form of interface with the computer for games, but I wish “animators” would leave mo-cap alone…it may be cost effective but it looks awful. It’s like the days when they used to use photographs for textures on fps’s, it just looks bizarre.
Great. Now Microsoft will track and listen to my every move in my living room. What could go wrong?
@Valoric0 I agree.