Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 70
That's just a knee-jerk reaction from the legal department.
MS Employee 1: Hey have you heard? They hacked the kinect to do some cool stuff.
MS Employee 2: Sweet
Lawyer 1: HACKED? THEY ARE HACKING OUR SYSTEMS, SUE SUE SUE.
Laywer 2: S&D tube one: fire!
Once they all got the memo that the hardware guys built the thing to be toyed around with (and seeing the hardware in the thing, they make some profit on it, selling it for $150, add that to the fact that it only has authentication for use with the xbox, and outputs unencrypted data), they issued the statement that they were allright with it.
Cool thing about the Kinect is that it gives developers a platform, combining thinking power. Everybody can hook up a couple of cameras and some leds to a computer, but now this 3D sensing thing has a standard and everyone works with the same thing, pretty much like when they were hacking away with the wii-motes, which Nintendo didn't object to either (and sold them some wiimotes, with no harm done to the system itself). Microsoft just tries it that way, and I hope that more companies follow suit. It's out hardware damnit, I want to do with it as I please!
I'm thinking of buying one for myself just to toy with it, but can't really justify the price just yet though