Microsoft: “Kinect SDK Coming In March.”
Rather than targeting Kinect users that have hacked the hands-free device, Microsoft is going to encourage them by giving them dev kits and seeing what they can do.
When the Kinect was first released, it enjoyed a relatively short and blissful window of tamper free life before the first reports of Kinects being hacked flooded in. The hands-free controller managed to remain unspoiled for a whole week before the first reports of Kinect hacks began, and once the instructions on how to do it hit the interwebs, it was all over. Microsoft officially shook its head while mumbling “kids these days” or some variation of, as the MS lawyers looked at their options and threatened possible legal action.
But public support, increasingly inventive and harmless hacks and perhaps the realization that Microsoft would come off looking like the evil developer that bought the only rec center in town in order to tear it down and make a strip mall unless one plucky kid can win a ski or a boat race or something, thus winning the heart of his long unrequited love and saving the town, made them reconsider.
