{"id":2603,"date":"2011-02-23T00:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T05:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2011-02-23T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T05:59:55","slug":"microsoft-to-begin-aiding-kinect-hackers-with-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/microsoft-to-begin-aiding-kinect-hackers-with-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft To Begin Aiding Kinect Hackers With Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/239508_S\/Microsft-Unveils-Kinect-Formerly-Project-Natal.jpg\" alt=\"Microsft Unveils Kinect, Formerly Project Natal\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft will begin aiding Kinect hackers by releasing a software  development kit to help programmers build Kinect compatible programs for  Windows PCs. Releasing a toolkit for hackers is a far-cry from what we  normally see from game companies who often sue gamers who mod consoles.  The toolkit is expected to be released sometime in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"readmore\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has shipped more than 8 million Kinect motion sensing  cameras. Hackers quickly figured out how to manipulate the camera to be  used with custom software and in existing games. Each time one of these  Kinect hacks gets posted online it seems to go viral.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Microsoft will charge for the Kinect toolkit? If they  don&#8217;t, what could their motivation be for encouraging people to create  software for their device?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will begin aiding Kinect hackers by releasing a software development kit to help programmers build Kinect compatible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}