Does the Kinect Make Microsoft an Arts Benefactor? | Idea Channel | PBS

If you haven't had a chance to play with Microsoft's Kinect, you're missing out on some great video games and some amazing art! The Kinect is a crazy awesome piece of XBox 360 hardware that maps your physical movements onto any screen. Artists of all stripes have embraced the Kinect - using the gesture recognition technology to create some pretty amazing interactive artworks and insanely impressive visuals. These works wouldn't have existed without this amazing piece of technology, making the corporate giant Microsoft the 21st century's incarnation of Lorzeno de Medici.

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Awesome Kinect Visuals:
Kinect Sound Sculpture: http://www.creativeapplications.net/p...
Golan Levin's AMA: http://vimeo.com/35858119
Aphex Twin Uses Kinect: http://thecreatorsproject.com/blog/ap...
Cell Open Frameworks, Kinect: http://www.creativeapplications.net/o...
Polycode C Framework: http://www.creativeapplications.net/c...
Rubber Sheet Screen: http://vimeo.com/17255101
Pillow Body: http://vimeo.com/17073934
Kinect Audio Visualizer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5vWzd...

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[Y PedrazaV]

You can use kinect with gmod, its really amazing

[stephennnbailey]

on the clippy note the first virus for google glass will be clippy think about it

[LeftClickShift]

This actually leads into something that is happening more and more - a tool becoming more useful outside its intended purpose.. Perhaps the developers at Microsoft saw that - even if its impact on the short-run was rather weak, the distant effects could be much more powerful.

[demolish238]

For art, the Kinect is great, but for gaming which it was made for, it’s a cheesy gimmick which companies need to stop making games for.

[PdCJonas]

0:28 JESSE COX!

[Theblueshark27]

I watch your vids! :D

[JCKillerOfEvil]

Should you consider that anything that inspires you should be consider a contributor to art. 

[DarkLordofMinecraft]

1337 H4X0R. Most unoriginal username ever xD

[Alexander Reed]

I disagree that they are a benefactor. They created the hardware but the software that then helps it be used for the arts means that it is these developers are the people who are the benefactors. Not only this but the kinect was not intended to be used for the purpose of art and although this does not mean the kinect hasn't helped artists around the world but what material hasn't? If we say that all things that artists use are benefactors then tampax are also benefactors.

[SergeantShrimp1]

wat....

[renshaw30]

not only that, Microsoft has directly and indirectly become a benefactor to the field of mechatronic engineering

[Faisal Al Yakobi]

Triangle?