Hasta La Gadget!

Remember the cloaking device effect used in the original Predator movie? The effect allowed the many-mouthed man-hunter from beyond the moon to cloak itself into its background. It was all the buzz of the late 1980s cinema. Now you can achieve basically that same effect with the Microsoft Kinect home gaming system.

This home-brewed digital invisibility cloak comes courtesy of Takayuki Fukatsu. According to his YouTube channel, he constructed the hack using openFrameworks, an open source C++ coding toolkit, however he holds back on the exact deets used to achieve the effect.

Making yourself invisible to the Xbox probably isn’t the most useful function in the world, but it is an impressive piece of techno-doodling. It’s also telling of how far we’ve come technologically that anyone can recreate an effect in their living room that was Hollywood state-of-the-art just 20 years ago. It’s also another example of Kinect-o-tinkering that tech-minded folk have found for Microsoft’s cool new toy.

via PopSci