It was just a few days back when the Kinect hardware for the Xbox 360 got hacked to run on a Windows 7 PC. The fun didn’t stop there though. Thanks to the recently released open source drivers for the Kinect, it has now been hacked to run on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X. The Kinect on the OS X doesn’t work the same way as it did on Windows 7 though where you had complete control over it’s motors and all. But the potential is there. The possibility of browsing the web, swipe pictures, and play video games in a Kinect-style with the new controller on your Mac or PC makes it very interesting. The Kinect can currently do multitouch as well.

You can grab the Libfreenect tools on the developer Theo Watson’s video page here, along with the complete source code. If you are a developer, then give it a shot and see if you can get the Kienct hardware working to it’s full potential.

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