Hack Kinect, serve Open Source and get $ 2000. The winner is already there

Hello everyone from the Adafruit team, and we are pleased to announce a X-Prize contest with a reward of $ 1000 (well, nafig) $ 2000 to the one who hacks Kinect for the Xbox 360 console! <...> Just don't make us raise the reward to 3 kilos of evergreens!

This is how the blog entry in Adafruit Industries begins, where users are encouraged to write an open source driver. To take part in the competition, you need to download the source code and documentation on GitHub .

Initially, the reward was $ 1000, but after Microsoft announced that they would not allow modifications to their products, the guys from Adafruit doubled the reward.
Kinect was released in the USA on November 4, 2010, it will “arrive” to Europe on November 10. An overview of the Kinect design is here .

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Based on CNET and H-Open

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Update

Attentive habrayuser of this thread , who read not only the sources, but also comments to them, noted that in the comments of a certain user mark, the complexity of the task, up to its complete impossibility, is described. Details in the above thread and comments (in English)

Update 2 ^{00.56 MSK 8/11/2010}

While the court and the case on Habré, in the foreign Internet there is already information about the beginning of active research on hacking Kinect. An authoritative resource Gizmodo has already published news of the early successes of enthusiasts.

Thanks for the information provided to the SpiritOfVox Habrayuzer .
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Update 3 ^06/14/2010

The winner has already been found by completing the task . You can discuss everything in the OpenKinect group on Google Groups. And here are the drivers themselves.