Magic Mirror Kinect hack works like an X-ray

by **Meesh** Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:28 pm

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Magic Mirror Kinect hack works like an X-ray

Post by Meesh Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:28 pm

We see all sorts of new Kinect hacks every day, and some of them are useful, while others are just pure innovative. Speaking of innovation, today’s Kinect hack allows you to use your the Kinect’s technology like an X-ray.

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This latest Kinect hack is called the Magic Mirror and it allows you to see your skeleton while standing in front of your Kinect. The Magic Mirror is quite a hack, and the person behind this project – Tobias Blum from the Technical University of Munich. So how does Magic Mirror works? This hack combines tools such as OpenNI and PrimseSense NITE that allow developers to put a layer consisting of a person that is standing in front of Kinect over the CT images of person’s skeleton. While the person moves, the skeleton moves accordingly with it, and you can watch as the bones move through the “hole” on person’s body.

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by **Vicky** Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:29 pm

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Post by Vicky Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:29 pm

wow this is a cool hack

by **iRaz** Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:03 pm

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Post by iRaz Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:03 pm

this is not a real X-Ray, is some kind of hacked enterntainment.

by **tearsofash** Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:14 pm

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Re: Magic Mirror Kinect hack works like an X-ray

Post by tearsofash Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:14 pm

It looks like it's just an overlay of a preexisting X-ray image onto your body. Kinect has depth sensors and infrared sensors but nothing that could see through you like that. The FCC and other governing bodies would allow something that would emit that much radiation fir sale to the public sector.