In an ironic twist of events, the Microsoft Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 gaming console has apparently been hacked to allow it to control Sony’s PlayStation 3 gaming console.
Indian technician Shantanu Goel is credited with the hack and he has posted a video on YouTube showing his work.
It is ironic if you look at the side of Microsoft, which has developed the motion-sensing Kinect, since its hugely popular device has apparently been tweaked to work with the PS3.
However, it also is ironic when you think of Sony’s recent moves to punish those meddling with the PS3 code. Recently, there have been crackdowns on hackers fiddling with the PS3.
Sony is also trying to catch on with the success of the Kinect with its own motion-sensing controller for the PS3, the Sony Move. Microsoft’s Kinect, on the other hand, has been a huge hit, even garnering the World Guinness Book of Records title for the fastest selling consumer electronics device of all time.
There are those who doubt the video by Goel, however, saying that a wireless controller could have easily been used to fake the video.
However, Goel says that “To all who want to see my both hands or the full room or whatever, it doesn’t prove anything even if I show it to you. Someone can even be outside the room controlling it if it was fake.”
“Anyways, I will be posting a 2nd video around coming weekend with the optimizations tht I’ve done since this one. I’ll try to take a full view this time,” Goel says.
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