Kinect-copter created by grad student

They finally found a good use for the Kinect, impressive.

Very awesome. It will be awesome to see where this goes.

@mosamania You mean ManHacks? Those things are annoying as fu.... We would all be screwed.

i can already see "shreders" those flying things in Half Life 2 Moving about. o.O

cool stuff by the way after military using ps3 for supercomputers, and xbox controllers to control robots, now they'll use kinect to make automatic battle robots armed with guns and explosive :P welcome to the future developed by videogames, which is awesome

KINECT SUXXORZ

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Wow awesome! Keep up the good work!

that's really cool.

It looks like Wall.e and by looking at the way it moves reminded of the thing with Snake in MGS4. Pretty cool.

This's the kind of news they read in sci-fi movies when they're trying to figure out what the hell happened and broke the war between the machines and humans. :P

@238GameAddict dude, almost anything is better than gt5, that game looks like a better way to fall asleep than an ambien.

@238GameAddict and Phatjam98 Jeez, you guys treat this like its a console vs console flame war or something. I've played with the kinect and i've found it to be slow and inaccurate. Its a toy and a nice distraction, but it'll never be a real input device. And that doesn't mean I'm some nintendo or sony fanboy like you accuse me of being; wii and move suck just as much. I hate all motion control with a passion.

People have good brain Kinections!

Microsoft now has potential to go even further into defense contracting. Unmanned surveillence products programmed to fly at specific heights over specific areas to get even better spy shots, I drool at the idea.

M$ is just using people to find out new ways to unlock and use the Kinect then comes in and copy right it.lol. a good stratergy

@ahpuck, thanks for the reference.

Looks like Johny 5B

Kinect is an awesome gaming device. it will be a good casual gaming prop, and then when the novelty wears off like with the Wii (let's say a year, maybe a little less), there will actually be some good games for it like the Star Wars Kinect game, Child of Eden, and others. I love my Kinect system. As far as these open source experiments go, it's awesome to see Kinect used for ideas outside the box, and even better to see it done with the ok of Microsoft. Kinect, or perhaps the next generation of it, is the future of gaming. just wait. Alot better than holding a wand in your hand.

People vastly underestimate the actual Kinect Games. While I suck at dance and rhytm stuff, Dance Central is actually pretty fun. But either way, looking forward to the potential that Child of Eden offers as well as Steel Battalion and Project Draco?

kinect.........does everything, but play worthy games.

hopefully all this will translate in to better kinect games

Much better than the kinect vacuum.

Hopefully Microsoft will release the Kinect SDK / XNA stuff soon. I can't imagine the cool indie type games that could come out if Microsoft stopped just helping the big boys do Kinect games. Given the fact that all these people using the Kinect for research projects don't even a fraction of the utility that Harmonix had when making Dance Central, the results are impressive. I'm a programmer myself and have made a few small Xbox game projects using their XNA kit. Was very disappointing they have not opened up Kinect the same way yet. From a gaming standpoint, Dance Central is the only real 'game' that would be enjoyed by hardcore gamers. Still for family and if you have friends come over Kinect is awesome just for fun. To compare it to the Wii or Move is like comparing swimming to just flapping one arm around. Since Kinect tracks all movement in 3d there are so many more possibilities than just shaking a wand around.

So, is kinect allways looking at me with that terminator view? I feel uncorfortable now!

Reminds me of those drones in Metal Gear Solid

That's one heck of a discovery!!!

People are talking about military applications but there's one major problem with that idea. It's just not stealthy enough. "What's that buzzing sound?"

That's pretty awesome.

kincat ability to sense 3d objects in an environ means that alot cool things can now be done

@DennisWZH No, it isn't. But more advanced motion sensing devices can cost a fathom of money and may not even be available to the general public. Kinect cost 150$ and are sold in general electronic stores. That's quite a big difference, especially considering how much the Kinect seems to be capable of.

One step closer for T-800 to be function. Kinectcopter = T-1 just need to mount a gatling guns.

why is everyone using kinect for their motion sensing? is kinect the most advance motion sensing device in the world now?

While certainly not an indication of anything, the game stops near where I live have all sold out except for the kinect/360 bundle. Best Buy had two. Not two on the shelves and two out back. Two. I didn't check any other stores but who knows.

Clever .... what next?

Hey Microsoft, the UC Berkeley students would like to order another 100 Kinects for research purposes. Pretty cool. They could probably use something like this to spy on people from above. Kinect: "It Just Does Everything." lol!! Sorry Sony. I couldn't resist. *************************************************** @Mysterieux936 Finally, someone found a way to make kinect fun! ------------------------------------------------------------ Kinect has been fun from day one. People who have never played it wouldn't know this. So far, everyone I've showed it too and played it with are planning to get one now. lol!! It sells itself. I've seen dozens of people playing it in various stores, and just about everyone walked away impressed and a smile on their faces.

Reminds me of some metal gear solid stuff

yawn

Its so cute!

they did what took sikorsky a decade to do. (its basically a cypher) xD

That would be cool to use in safes and homes to get in lol.

Reminds me of those flying Razor bots in Half-Life

That's pretty cool. Kinect looks like it may be more useful as a military tool than a game peripheral. :roll:

robo kinect is more fun to play

@jad206 its not just an IR sensor, otherwise that would be its name, its a Kinect and they just use it instead of one, wheres the news in that? no where

@xfan-atic: http://hushedcasket.com/node/2816 and http://www.playstation.com/life/en/index.html

Er my bad, I was talking to paranormalnut. Tauu, your statement is pretty accurate.

Wall-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Hm, I sense robo-murder on the horizon.. o.O

Tauu: we already have UAVs and police and military drones. This is special just because it is a 'hack' of the Kinect sensor