Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...

New York-based Adafruit Industries really wants to get its hands on open-source drivers for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 peripheral, Kinect. So much so that the firm is offering a handsome bounty for the ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Two weeks ago, an industrious software engineer created open-source ...

A hacker won a contest on Wednesday to be the first person to successfully create an open-source driver for Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensitive controller. Last week, open-source hardware developers ...

Just three hours after the European launch, Hector Martin has already hacked Microsoft’s new Kinect motion system and enabled it to run under Linux open-source drivers with support for RGB input as ...

DIY hardware company Adafruit Industries recently offered a $3,000 bounty to encourage the development of open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect motion control camera. Developer Hector Martin ...

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The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications to use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of code under an Apache 2.0 license. Jay Greene, a CNET senior ...

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If you want to build a Linux application with motion controls, then you are in luck. Igalia has released an open source skeleton tracking library that works with Microsoft’s Kinect input device. The ...

A hacker has released drivers that will allow you to communicate and control the Kinect device. The hacker and electronics DIY crowd has been really excited about the possibilities that the technology ...