Two years ago I bought a Kinect for my XBox 360 in the naive hope that Microsoft would release Skype for the console.
Sadly they didn't but I would still like to use the Kinect for video conferencing on my HDMI television.
Is there a way to achieve this? Ideally using Google Hangouts or Skype.
Do Chromeboxes support the Kinect?
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The Xbox version of the Kinect can be used on the PC with a little bit of work. Upon review of the links, I'd recommend the this video since I didn't have the time to watch the whole youtube video at the time I first posted.
To use it you need the following:
At this point, just follow the youtube video in order to install the proper drivers and get everything set up. I've wanted to do this for a while, but haven't since I already have a webcam that I never use and no proper application for motion capture (yet), let me know how everything goes!
