Hacking Kinect: Awesome.

This post is an excerpt from Here's What You Can Build With Kinect: Custom Statues, Training Simulations, Noise Ink & More.

November: Kinect Drivers Hacked, Early Experiments Begin

Kinect's original purpose was to enable gamers to control Xbox games through a natural user interface, using gestures and spoken commands. However, speculation is already rife that Kinect may be a key component of a future Windows OS release. Gestures may become as important a user interface in future computers as the mouse is nowadays.