Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties

ashidosan writes "Hot on the heels of the Adafruit competition, Matt Cutts (a search spam engineer at Google) is sponsoring two more $1,000 bounties for projects using Kinect. 'The first $1,000 prize goes to the person or team that writes the coolest open-source app, demo, or program using the Kinect. The second prize goes to the person or team that does the most to make it easy to write programs that use the Kinect on Linux.'" Relatedly, reader imamac points out a video showing Kinect operating on OS X.

huh?

[Charliemopps]

I'm having trouble giving a fuck. Someone please enlighten me to why anyone would want, what's basically a camera made by Microsoft, trained on their living room 24hrs a day? We'll be able to plat tux racer with hand movements?

Re:Kinect hype

[nanomanc]

It tells me where my joints are? I want one :)

Re:huh?

[mcvos]

We'll be able to plat tux racer with hand movements?

Actually, that was my third idea for a Kinect application: a racing game where you steer with a pretend-wheel in the air. And if possible, accelerate by going "BWBWBWBWBWB" with your lips. That'd be really cool.