Xbox Engineering blog explains how Kinect works
by Griffin McElroy 
on Jan 5th 2011 6:40PM
So, remember all those times that you asked us how the
Kinect manages to identify your human form and adapt it into an in-game Avatar? Remember how we told you that it did so with "robot magic?" We may have been
a little off-base with that one -- the Xbox Engineering blog recently posted
a full explanation of the all-seeing eye's
actual inner workings in a manner simplistic enough for even technophobic cavemen such as ourselves to understand.
The post also gives a little insight into the trial-and-error development of Kinect. It sounds like it was a pretty fascinating process -- though apparently the dev team didn't even
think to incorporate robot magic, which, in our opinion, seems like a pretty major oversight.
