Soon KINECTS PS3

**jamal94** · 12-16-2010,08:37 AM

Following the arrival of Open Source drivers for Microsoft KINECTS (everyone knows what it is, right?) Many platforms can now leverage the KINECTS.

Now through the driver is open you can also use the KINECTS PS3. While not in the XMB, do not dream either but in otheros.
This driver allows access to all function KINECTS. The depth sensor, audio and video should theoretically be compatible with the PS3.

Here's a video of an application running with open but not on PS3.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr8vgCnb9_0&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - OpenNI-compliant real time skeleton tracking by PrimeSense[/ame]

I await your feedbacK

Source: Ps3-Addict.fr • Bientôt Kinect sur PS3 : News Hack

**crisdo98** · 12-16-2010,05:07 PM

How is this news? WTf is a Kinects anyway.. it's friggin Kinect! When someone ports it to PS3 and has it running then it's new otherwise this is just another BS thread.

edit: thanks for providing the source Snoop rather than some poorly translated rubbish.

**SnoopDo2G** · 12-16-2010,06:07 PM

Just over a month ago Adafruit Industries offered and paid a bounty for an Open Kinect Driver, and today German site VideoGamesZone.de (linked above) reports that running homebrew Kinect applications may soon be possible on PS3 via OtherOS and API OpenNI drivers.

To quote, roughly translated: "Kinect for Xbox 360 might also operate on the PlayStation 3. Thanks to recent API OpenNI Drivers for Windows and Linux could allow PS3 consoles with older firmware with the OtherOS function also Kinect Underground.

The drivers allow access to all Kinect functions. Both the depth sensor and the audio and video capabilities of Kinect would theoretically available on the PlayStation 3.

So far, we have some Kinect videos from amateur hobbyists found, do the fun things with Kinect on the PC. Below are videos of a cool Minority Report-application and a player to come out with invisible Kinect makes.

A video to a Kinect application on the PlayStation 3 we have not found, yet."

Here the source:
Kinect Applications Possible on PS3 via API OpenNI Drivers - PS3 NEWS - PlayStation 3 News - PS3 Forums

And good reading here too : What the PS3 Needs to Compete with Kinect ?

**Slynk** · 12-21-2010,04:08 AM

I have a Kinect. I'm pretty sure it uses firewire (definitely not usb)... which I believe the PS3 does not have a port for. So the only way to even hook it up, would be to run in through a converter, potentially degrading the cams' ability to pass info fast enough. They already took out a cpu from it, running it through a converter would be even worse <.>

**RatAndDragon** · 12-21-2010,04:18 AM

Originally Posted by Slynk

I have a Kinect. I'm pretty sure it uses firewire (definitely not usb)... which I believe the PS3 does not have a port for. So the only way to even hook it up, would be to run in through a converter, potentially degrading the cams' ability to pass info fast enough. They already took out a cpu from it, running it through a converter would be even worse <.>

Pretty sure the Xbox doesn't have a firewire port either, and that kinect is a USB device.

The latest Xbox 360 models do have a dedicated kinect port, but that seems to be a USB port that can provide a bit more power than usual. Older 360s only have the two USB on the front, one on the back, the power connector and the video/sound out connector. hell, mine doesn't even have HDMI!

**KDSBest** · 12-22-2010,04:41 AM

Originally Posted by Slynk

I have a Kinect. I'm pretty sure it uses firewire (definitely not usb)... which I believe the PS3 does not have a port for. So the only way to even hook it up, would be to run in through a converter, potentially degrading the cams' ability to pass info fast enough. They already took out a cpu from it, running it through a converter would be even worse <.>

xD not more to say to that

**buberlo** · 12-22-2010,05:18 AM

Originally Posted by Slynk

I have a Kinect. I'm pretty sure it uses firewire (definitely not usb)... which I believe the PS3 does not have a port for. So the only way to even hook it up, would be to run in through a converter, potentially degrading the cams' ability to pass info fast enough. They already took out a cpu from it, running it through a converter would be even worse <.>

**Slynk** · 12-22-2010,07:22 AM

Apparently there are two? I won mine from Burger King so it's the dedicated one.

Kinect with your XBOX 360 | BaltimoreGamer

So the new Kinect enabled 360 uses firewire and the shelf kinects use USB?

**Shadow Pyro** · 01-19-2011,12:07 AM

god...Kinect uses a USB. They have an external power supply for it. They need it to be compatible for the old Xbox. Firewire is an Apple tech and it is not anywhere in the Kinect. The next person says firewire port needs to die

**Anony** · 01-19-2011,12:27 AM

Originally Posted by Shadow Pyro

god...Kinect uses a USB. They have an external power supply for it. They need it to be compatible for the old Xbox. Firewire is an Apple tech and it is not anywhere in the Kinect. The next person says firewire port needs to die

lol yes its usb.

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