Hack your Kinect on GitHub
libFreenect is an open source library for tinkering with your Kinect. People have already been using it for lightsabers, interactive puppets, multitouch interfaces, and more. It’s only been a few…
libFreenect is an open source library for tinkering with your Kinect. People have already been using it for lightsabers, interactive puppets, multitouch interfaces, and more. It’s only been a few weeks, and we’ve already seen some exciting prototypes. The active GitHub project itself already has 264 watchers and 49 forks.
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