You've seen so many
Kinect hacks by now that you probably think you
know them all -- but wait, have you seen one that makes you look like
Predator when he's busy predatorizing the populace? Or one that lets you reenact your favorite
Metal Gear Solid scenes with Snake's camo turned
on? Yup, a Japanese coder by the name of Takayuki Fukatsu has exploited the
versatile openFrameworks to give Kinect a mode where it tracks your movement and position, but turns the dull details of your visage into an almost perfectly transparent outline. Of course, you're not
actually transparent, it looks to be just the system skinning an image of the background onto the contours of your body in real time, but man, it sure is cool to look at. You can do so for yourself with the video after the break.
Continue reading Kinect now offers a stealth mode, courtesy of optical camouflage hack (video)
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