Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...

New York-based Adafruit Industries really wants to get its hands on open-source drivers for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 peripheral, Kinect. So much so that the firm is offering a handsome bounty for the ...

As expected, the first open source drivers for the Microsoft Kinect that allow it to be used with a PC have been released. A developer by the name of Hector Martin is the author of the driver. Right ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last week hardware company Adafruit Industries out out a $3000 dollar bounty for the first person ...

Microsoft locked Kinect Technology to stop hackers from hacking into the system and making it available publicly. But, this hasn’t stopped Hector Martin, the guy who just hacked Microsoft Kinect and ...

Despite Microsoft’s claim that they have built a number of safeguards into the design of Kinect to prevent tampering with its design, open source drivers for Windows apparently have been developed and ...

While the NUI Group works on its SDK and Windows drivers for Microsoft's Kinect sensor after releasing proof that it had successfully hooked the device up to a PC, a lone hacker has gone ahead and ...

The NUI Group posted its Kinect motion controller hacking results first, and is now working on an SDK and Windows drivers to enable all the capabilities of the peripheral. That will all be released as ...

Enterprising coders are well on their way to reverse-engineering Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral, and have released video evidence of their hard work on the web. Over the following weekend, impressive ...

It looks like Microsoft is working on an official SDK and also official Kinect drivers for Windows according to a recent report. We heard at CES from Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer that Microsoft would ...

Who knew Kinect could work just as well snapped into a regular PC as an Xbox 360? Hector Martin, that’s who. Martin took up a challenge issued by Adafruit Industries to uncork Kinect’s mysterious ...