One wonders if the latest person to hack the new Kinect gaming hardware was just trying to conveniently access it on on a different operating system, or simply looking to piss off Microsoft. Theo Watson here rigged the company’s new flagship motion capture gadget to work on Mac OS X. He even left a trail of breadcrumbs that lead to all the tools necessary for you to commit operating system sacrilege too. Looks like homeboy hasn’t worked out all the kinks yet. But if there’s not a team of angry Microsofties knocking on Watson’s door already, we’d be shocked.XBox Kinect running on OS X ( with source code ) from Theo Watson on Vimeo.
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